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- From: Conrad_Nobili@Harvard.EDU (Conrad C. Nobili)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: How stable is extended filesystem?
- Message-ID: <Conrad_Nobili-161292173933@nobili.harvard.edu>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 22:51:56 GMT
- References: <1992Dec15.232106.24407@tc.cornell.edu> <1gm5rrINNb01@life.ai.mit.edu>
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- In article <1gm5rrINNb01@life.ai.mit.edu>, mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu
- (Charles Hannum) wrote:
-
- > If you don't *need* extfs, and don't mind short file names, I would
- > recommend not using it for now.
-
- Hmmmm.... Maybe some of you *have* been using DOS too long.... I guess
- 14-character file names must be quite a luxury to you...! ;-) I would say
- that *this limitation alone* is why you *need* extfs.... To say nothing
- about constantly having to redistribute all your dinky little file systems
- when they fill up.... Maybe some of you *like* that aspect of system
- administration.... I always figured that was what we had *operators* for
- (the dirty-but-easy work).... ;-)
-
- Anyway, I must say that I have had no problems whatsoever with extfs since
- I first started using linux half a year ago. I guess that was with extfs
- version alpha.6 or so. I recommend it.
-
- Conrad C. Nobili N1LPM Conrad_Nobili@Harvard.EDU Harvard University OIT
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