Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 10:30:17 +1300 From: Joe Abley <jabley@patho.gen.nz> To: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> Cc: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>, Chuck Youse <cyouse@paradox.nexuslabs.com>, Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why FFS is THAT slower than EXT2 ? Message-ID: <19991028103016.B8012@patho.gen.nz> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.991027161759.3714B-100000@shell-3.enteract.com>; from dscheidt@enteract.com on Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 04:22:20PM -0500 References: <19991028095839.A26635@patho.gen.nz> <Pine.NEB.3.96.991027161759.3714B-100000@shell-3.enteract.com>
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On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 04:22:20PM -0500, David Scheidt wrote: > On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Joe Abley wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 10:29:54AM -0600, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > > > To put it slightly more strongly: as far as I'm concerned ext2 is not a > > > serious fs if you really care about handling power failures and other such > > > fun things. > > > > I'm not sure I've ever really understood this position. In cases where > > data integrity is vital to retain, there is no excuse for not using > > machines with multiple power supplies, each fed from independent, clean > > power sources, with multiple fans, running a stable, tested OS release. > > I take it you never have had anyone hit the Big Red Button, a fire, > a flood, or a random panic, a clueless tech, or a hardware failure? > I see one of my machines go down along these lines every six weeks or so. A > hosed filesystem would (really!) ruin my day. Actually, no, at least not in the past six years I've been working with carriers and high-spec datacentres. But I take your point :) Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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