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From: Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>
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Subject: Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing
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Hi,

On Tuesday 01 May 2012 20:43:43 Polytropon wrote:
> On Tue, 01 May 2012 00:37:51 -0700, Edward M wrote:
> > On 04/30/2012 10:58 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote:
> > > Reading_both_  of McKusick's  "Design of .." books, and the 'Unix System
> > > Admininstration Handbook', by Nemeth, et al.  is a good_start_.
> > >
> > > Having a bunch of the books from O'Reilley&  Assoc. (<http://www.ora.com>),
> > > especially for 'standard' tools that you need to get the most out of, is
> > > also highly recommended.
> > >   
> > 
> >     After realising  I lack ton of  knowledge, especially how the 
> > internals work. I'm using this advice:-) .
> 
> Except buying (good) books, you can also search for
> articles on the web. For example, "A Fast File System
> for UNIX" by M. K. McKusick is very interesting (at
> least it was for me when I lost all my important data).
> 
you wanted to say 'real man do not need a backup'?

> Some fs-related articles here:
> http://www.mckusick.com/articles.html
> 
This is one advantage of systems like FreeBSD. If the need arises, you can do it yourself.

> 	The docs that used to live in this directory now exist on the wiki:
> 	http://wiki.sleuthkit.org/
> 
It must be a disease.

Erich