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- From: Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall)
- Subject: Re: How stable is extended filesystem?
- Message-ID: <BzC542.8oF@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- X-Aka: Upholder
- Keywords: extfs
- Sender: randall@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall)
- Reply-To: Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall)
- Organization: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
- References: <1992Dec15.232106.24407@tc.cornell.edu> <1gm5rrINNb01@life.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 04:43:00 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
- >kutcha@eos.acm.rpi.edu (Phillip Rzewski) writes:
- >> On a related topic, if I decide to go all 213 megs Linux, I'll still
- >> have some space left over on my other hard drive (the 55 megs I'm
- >> using now). Would you suggest going extfs with that too, or keeping
- >> some as the old style? Reasons?
-
- >I've only been using Linux for two days. I've installed it on a 300MB
- >"extended" partition. Half of one of those days was spent reinstalling
- >after it barfed on my disk.
-
- >If you don't *need* extfs, and don't mind short file names, I would
- >recommend not using it for now.
-
-
- I have been using the Extended filesystem since kernel version 0.96c
- allowed them to be mounted as the root filesystem... (this was extfs
- ALPHA v6) and since that time, I have *NEVER* had a single problem
- with an extended filesystem that was not *DIRECTLY* the fault of my
- own stupidity or power failure. (ie, reboot w/o sync, etc)
-
- The extended filesystem as it is, has been very stable for me over the
- last 6 months. However, there is a newer version of the extfs that will
- reportedly use bitmaps instead of linked-lists for a large increase in speed.
-
- The author doesn't want to guarantee backwards compatiblity with this
- extended filesystem... thus he is reluctant to call it 'beta' even though
- it is much more stable (IMHO) than any 'Alpha' status program.
-
- I would suggest that you partition your drive in such a manner that you
- can tar or zip up one entire partition to another to replace/upgrade
- the filesystems as needed...
-
- --
- Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (ASCII mail) THIS IS _NOT_ CCSO'S OPINION!!!
- jar42733@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu (NeXT mail) If It were, It would've had a
- wi.6580@n7kbt.rain.com (anon) more important name on it. =)
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