From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 11 01:43:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA24306 for current-outgoing; Sun, 11 Feb 1996 01:43:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA24254 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 1996 01:43:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id UAA03230; Sun, 11 Feb 1996 20:23:34 +1100 Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 20:23:34 +1100 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199602110923.UAA03230@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: terry@lambert.org, wscott@ichips.intel.com Subject: Re: How Cc: coredump@onyx.nervosa.com, current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >I believe the Linux ext2 file system is always async. Is that A sync option was added a year or two ago. This option doesn't seem to be used much. >filesystem just as unstable or do they do something else to make it >easier to recover in the case of a crash. Not a lot. Perhaps the crash recovery tools are more advanced. >I have crashed Linux systems many many times and have not noticed a >real problem recovering. Am I just lucky? A bit. The chance of losing a lot of files given that you've crashed seems to be small, perhaps 1 in 100. Bruce