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Date:      Thu, 6 Jan 2000 14:54:02 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
To:        "Alexey N. Dokuchaev" <danfe@inet.ssc.nsu.ru>
Cc:        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.4.21.0001061452580.66464-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001061554530.26779-100000@inet.ssc.nsu.ru>

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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.

Actually, once i made a mistake and ruined /var, including the package db,
and it screwed my system.  I had no idea how to fix the packages.  But
this was my fault.  However, a way of recovering without reinstalling
would have been nice.

-=> jm <=-





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