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- From: bairstow@copland.psu.edu (Steven Bairstow)
- Subject: The Third Degree
- Message-ID: <pz91Ht-g*8@atlantis.psu.edu>
- Keywords: questions
- Sender: news@atlantis.psu.edu (Usenet)
- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 04:37:52 GMT
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- My Linux partition just bit the dust, so I'm going to ask for some
- information before I re-partititon it. (I want usr and swap partitions
- instead of one big one this time.) Anyway I want responses from anybody
- who knows about any of this, even if it's just a "yep." Without further
- ado here are the questions....
-
- - Has anyone noticed free inodes being left around? I think
- halt/shutdown is doing it. (This is what I was trying to figure
- out when it crashed.)
- - What is the current status of long filenames? Is it a patch?
- How reliable is it?
- - Do any of the current disk sets handle SCSI disks well? How about
- the partitioning programs?
- - How big are the X11 binaries plus whatever special stuff is needed
- to write X-programs?
- - Has anyone ever considered an X driver for plain VGA? Why or why
- not make one?
- - Is anyone interested in a patch that would add a timeout default
- to the "Press <RETURN> to see SVGA modes or any other key to
- continue." message?
-
- Steve
-