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Date:      Thu, 6 Jan 2000 02:44:45 -0800 (PST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net>
Cc:        "Alexey N. Dokuchaev" <danfe@inet.ssc.nsu.ru>, Alwyn Schoeman <alwyns@littlecruncher.prizm.dhs.org>, Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@nojunk.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FFS vs ext2fs (Was: Re: Not enough information)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001060242360.227-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001060514270.17839-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>

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On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Adam wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Alexey N. Dokuchaev wrote:
> 
> >> Recently FreeBSD's not so great filesystem got corrupted. Guess what got
> >>damaged? Package information, so now I can't get any information on
> >>installed packages.UPgrading ports, I mean installed ports? Probably the
> >>only point its got going 
> >
> >Bullsh*t!  FFS totally outperforms ext2fs, and I've never heard any
> >opposite statements.
> >
>
> Alexey made no statement about performance, so don't turn this into an
> issue it isn't. 
> 

He did make a statement about reliability, he should check his facts,
ext2 has many misfeatures that make it unsuitable for mission critical
deployment.

-Alfred



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