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Date:      Fri, 1 Sep 2006 00:01:54 -0700
From:      soralx@cydem.org
To:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: The future of NetBSD
Message-ID:  <200609010001.55068.soralx@cydem.org>
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Rahul Siddharthan:
> On FreeBSD with UFS, more than once a crash totally
> hosed my system: I had to reinstall. People blamed it
> on ATA write-caching: the standard FreeBSD advice is
> "use SCSI".  With linux/ext3 I've NEVER had a problem

Don't know whether it's really ATA write-caching, but my
home workstation with SCSI drive never had a single case
of corrupted FS (and I crash it a lot), when other ATA-based
computers sometimes get 'unexpected soft updates inconsistency',
and it's really killing the whole FS. Slowly (but sometimes
instantly) and surely.

[SorAlx]  ridin' VN1500-B2



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