From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 6 2:23: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CEC515517 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 02:23:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA20132; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 02:44:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 02:44:45 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Adam Cc: "Alexey N. Dokuchaev" , Alwyn Schoeman , Salvo Bartolotta , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FFS vs ext2fs (Was: Re: Not enough information) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message