Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 03:08:47 -0500 (EST) From: Donn Miller <dmmiller@cvzoom.net> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk>, <mobile@FreeBSD.ORG>, <sos@freebsd.dk>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Disk I/O problem in 4.3-BETA Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103140306210.666-100000@acs-24-154-53-165.zoominternet.net> In-Reply-To: <200103140404.f2E44Ne16415@grumpy.dyndns.org>
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On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, David Kelly wrote: > Well, I am an ex-Linux user who got fed up with Linux trashing my disk 3 > times one week. Each time (kernel panics) the damage was bad enough fsck > (e2fsck?) deleted a lot of critical files making a wipe/reinstall the > fastest way back to a running system. This was shortly after the release > of FreeBSD 2.0.0. Remember it well because that is when I became a > FreeBSD user. Hmm, probably 6 years ago this month. > > Have watched Linux from "outside" since then. Noticed I was not the > only one losing data. From what I've seen the Linux solution was not to > to fix a faulty design but to hack it until it doesn't lose as much. I agree -- EXT2 is kinda crappy. But to be fair, Linux has Reiserfs, and I've heard of EXT3 on the way. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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