From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 6 10:17: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22687150AF for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 10:17:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bsdx@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA27628; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 13:16:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 13:16:07 -0500 (EST) From: Adam To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: 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 Backup. Backup. Backup. Backup. Backup. Backup. Test restoring. ps. Did I mention making backups? :-) On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Jonathon McKitrick 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. > >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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message