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- From: rrusk@ssd.csd.harris.com (Bob Rusk)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: How stable is extended filesystem?
- Message-ID: <RRUSK.92Dec19110228@rcx1.ssd.csd.harris.com>
- Date: 19 Dec 92 16:02:28 GMT
- References: <724737746.AA26895@remote.halcyon.com>
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- Reply-To: rrusk@ssd.csd.harris.com
- Organization: Harris Computer Systems Division
- Lines: 28
- In-Reply-To: Rob.Levin@p13.f217.n3802.z1.fidonet.org's message of 17 Dec 92 20:53:06 GMT
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- On 17 Dec 92 20:53:06 GMT, Rob.Levin@p13.f217.n3802.z1.fidonet.org (Rob Levin) wrote:
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- >Replying to a message by Phillip Rzewski of 1:343/94@fidonet, Dec 15
- >23:21, to All:
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- > PR> So does anyone have a summary of how it's going? What's your
- > PR> suggestion? On a related topic, if I decide to go all 213
- > PR> megs Linux, I'll still have some space left over on my other
- > PR> hard drive (the 55 megs I'm using now). Would you suggest
- > PR> going extfs with that too, or keeping some as the old style?
- > PR> Reasons?
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- >I have not had any problems with extfs, kernel 0.97-0.99. Granted, I've
- >been lucky, but it's pretty stable.
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-
- I haven't been quite so lucky. Twice now, I've managed to corrupt an
- efs partition by starting to untar a large tar file (gcc-2.3.1.tar.Z),
- realizing that I was going to run out of disk, and killing 'tar'. The
- first time, efsck couldn't save it. So far it looks like I got lucky
- the second time, efsck worked. This is on a 386/20DX with an Intel
- 80387DX/25, 8MB RAM, and a 240MB Quantum IDE hard disk with two 63MB
- efs partitions, one 12MB swap partition, and a 90MB DOS partition on it.
-
- --
- Bob Rusk
- rrusk@ssd.csd.harris.com
- My thoughts, probably not Harris'.
-