From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 6 6:54:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29A0E15477 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 06:54:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 126EIc-0002y2-00; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 14:54:02 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA66739; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 14:54:02 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 14:54:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: "Alexey N. Dokuchaev" Cc: 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, 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 <=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message