Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 12:10:00 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: filesystems Message-ID: <20020306111000.GI35221@roman.mobil.cz> In-Reply-To: <15493.56451.886414.268929@guru.mired.org> References: <46294783@toto.iv> <15493.56451.886414.268929@guru.mired.org>
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> Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 03:08:19 -0600
> To: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org>
> Cc: questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: filesystems
> From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1015837702.cf229b@mired.org>
>
> Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> types:
> > On Monday 04 March 2002 11:57 pm, Patrick Fish wrote:
> > > My disk layout looks like this:
> > >
> > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> > > /dev/ad0s1a 18G 2.7G 14G 16% /
> > > procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc
> > > ........
> > > Would it be a good idea to break the major dirs into seperate partitions?
> >
> > I prefer it that way, but it's simpler in many ways to just have one--you
> > never wind up shuffling bits of your system around when the ratio between
> > partition sizes turns out to be wrong.
> >
> > The big drawback is that if your f/s ever gets trashed, *everything* is gone,
> > including the partition that you might have wanted to stick around to
> > facilitate recovery.
>
> That's true, but 1) FreeBSD file systems are *much* more robust than
> they were in 1990.
this is a very common claim my experience grossly contradicts. I
mean, I started using freebsd last year, so I cannot comment on
filesystems from 12 years ago, but my experience suggests that FFS
is much more fragile than anything else I've seen. heck, windows
(FAT, NTFS4/5) crashed on me countless times, but I don't remember
seeing a windows system unbootable due to fs corruption.
put FreeBSD, Xfree86, and a graphic card X doesn't quite grok in the
mix, and you may quite soon end up looking at a spontaneous reboot
that ends with "btx halt" (happened to me on a 4.4-RELEASE/GENERIC
just two days ago).
--
FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE
11:52AM up 6 days, 13 hrs, 16 users, load averages: 0.08, 0.03, 0.00
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