From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 25 12:18:24 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77B3037B404 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 12:18:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thor.acuson.com (ac17859.acuson.com [157.226.71.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5477D43F93 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 12:18:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com (mvaexch02.acuson.com [157.226.230.209]) by thor.acuson.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 (built Feb 21 2002)) with ESMTP id <0HDW00G3WYXDBH@thor.acuson.com> for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 12:17:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 12:08:00 -0700 Received: from dhcp-46-117.acuson.com ([157.226.46.117]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id JQ7L9S2Z; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 12:09:28 -0700 Content-return: allowed Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 12:17:53 -0700 From: Johnson David In-reply-to: <200304251419.39926.tsasser@terra.cl> To: Tom , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Message-id: <200304251217.53967.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Organization: Siemens Medical Systems MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <200304251419.39926.tsasser@terra.cl> Subject: Re: filesystems X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 19:18:24 -0000 On Friday 25 April 2003 01:19 pm, Tom wrote: > hi all, > > has anyone had any trouble with freeBSD's file system? any data > loss, crashes, etc? what sort of reliability can i expect if the > power goes out or a hd starts acting up? I've never had any problems, even the few times that power did go out. Since you're asking this question of newbies, instead of asking experts or hiring a consultant, and considering that power outages are an issue, I'd hazard a guess that you're interested in FreeBSD for a desktop or a personal server. Am I right? p.s. Backup, backup, backup. Even large multinational banks with ultra highend enterprise class filesystems on their currency exchange transaction servers make backups. And buy a UPS :-) David