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- From: dingbat@diku.dk (Niels Skov Olsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: How stable is extended filesystem?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.131625.4911@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 13:16:25 GMT
- References: <1992Dec15.232106.24407@tc.cornell.edu> <1gm5rrINNb01@life.ai.mit.edu> <Conrad_Nobili-161292173933@nobili.harvard.edu>
- Sender: dingbat@rimfaxe.diku.dk
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
- Lines: 28
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- Conrad_Nobili@Harvard.EDU (Conrad C. Nobili) writes:
-
- >In article <1gm5rrINNb01@life.ai.mit.edu>, mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu
- >(Charles Hannum) wrote:
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- >> 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).... ;-)
-
- I agree. Long filenames is far more important than speed issues to me.
- I like to have sources on-line, and many distributions come with long
- filenames, which can make a *hell* out of recompiling.
-
- >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.
-
- The only problem I ever had was with directory handling under 0.97 or so.
- This is now history.
-
- Niels
-