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- From: fridlund@mermaid.micro.umn.edu (Jim Fridlund)
- Subject: Re: How stable is extended filesystem?
- In-Reply-To: Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu's message of Wed, 16 Dec 1992 04:43:00 GMT
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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:48:14 GMT
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- In article <BzC542.8oF@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall) writes:
-
- >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)
-
- I just got my SCSI working a few days ago and have been using extfs
- version 10, I believe. So far I have not encountered any problems
- (knock on wood). I've had to reboot my machine with the reset switch
- several times because of improper use of 'xdm', but efsck reports no
- problem with the SCSI. It seems stable on my machine. I wish it were
- the standard file system for Linux. Perhaps someday... Yeah, never
- reboot without a 'sync'. This is true for all unix box. I wait till
- I see Linux 'sync' before I do a system reset. NOTE: I don't do
- system reset unless necessary.
-
- 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...
-
- I agree. This seems to be a good idea. I found this to be quite
- helpful in some cases.
-
- --
- Jim Fridlund U of MN - Computer Science
- fridlund@mermaid.micro.umn.edu Institute of Technology
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