From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 27 04:26:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA28408 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 04:26:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from www.schell.de (sas@[195.20.238.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA28367 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 04:25:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sas@www.schell.de) Received: from localhost (sas@localhost) by www.schell.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA18814; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 13:25:13 +0200 Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 13:25:10 +0200 (MET DST) From: Sascha Schumann To: maltel@usa.net cc: David Greenman , Peter Mutsaers , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD or LINUX??? - Which one should I choose? In-Reply-To: <13756.13567.235077.789440@neuron.webmore.de> 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 Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Malte Lance wrote: > Sascha, i really enjoyed your postings to this list. Unfortunately you > are trying to start a splatter-fest: > > Sascha Schumann writes: > > > >I'm running FreeBSD-stable (2.2.7) now for four days and it crashed three > > > >times on me. The first time, I copied a 2MB file to a clean ext2fs > > > >partition - the system hang (I could still switch between terminals), > > > >but the partition was mixed up - lots of errors while running e2fsck. The > > > >second time happened while hammering the FreeBSD machine with lots of web > > > >request. The system froze (=totally dead) after ~2M requests. The third > > > >time was again disk related, "Freeing free block" and system reboot within > > > >15 seconds while installing a new kernel image. > > > > The disk I copied to (a old 500MB Conner, UFS) has/had bad blocks. I > > played with bad144/badsect/fsck shortly before that and dd'ed some test > > files around the partitions. That was probably the cause. > > ... and maybe dd'ed the whole partition away. Then why are you whining > in your first post about a panic. So, if I run my mission critical server on this system, it's expected to die when it encounters some read/write errors? fyi, I did sth like dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile which shouldn't trash anything. I just needed the range of bad sectors. > Take a nail, hammer it through your harddisk and wonder that FreeBSD > panics. And yes, i know, Linux wouldn't crash on this. I don't wonder. I don't complain. I formatted the disk and reinstalled FreeBSD completely. I just reported that. Sorry, if that destroys your dreams. The argument was sth like "FreeBSD is more stable than Linux". To prove such a theory false, you only need to find one false occurence. I don't tend to say "A suckz, B rockz". You won't hear it from me. But what else could I have expected on a FreeBSD list... > Next time tell the whole story in your FIRST complain instead of > drawing a bad picture of FreeBSD by just telling parts of the story. > > Some of your own words: > > > > >I don't want to blame FreeBSD here for anything. I'm *very* new to it. I'm > > > >Linux biased. I'm open to new things - but not to Linux bashing. > > Then why are you FreeBSD-bashing ? I'm just sharing my experiences. If I did sth wrong, tell me. If I test a system on its reliability and it fails on the on or the other side, mustn't I say this? Bye, Sascha > > Malte. > > > > > Bye, > > Sascha > > > > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message