From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 14 0: 8:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from scully.zoominternet.net (scully.zoominternet.net [63.67.120.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A7C0337B71A for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 00:08:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmmiller@cvzoom.net) Received: (qmail 4575 invoked from network); 14 Mar 2001 08:02:41 -0000 Received: from acs-24-154-53-165.zoominternet.net (24.154.53.165) by scully.zoominternet.net with SMTP; 14 Mar 2001 08:02:41 -0000 Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 03:08:47 -0500 (EST) From: Donn Miller X-X-Sender: To: David Kelly Cc: Pete French , , , Subject: Re: Disk I/O problem in 4.3-BETA In-Reply-To: <200103140404.f2E44Ne16415@grumpy.dyndns.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, David Kelly wrote: > Well, I am an ex-Linux user who got fed up with Linux trashing my disk 3 > times one week. Each time (kernel panics) the damage was bad enough fsck > (e2fsck?) deleted a lot of critical files making a wipe/reinstall the > fastest way back to a running system. This was shortly after the release > of FreeBSD 2.0.0. Remember it well because that is when I became a > FreeBSD user. Hmm, probably 6 years ago this month. > > Have watched Linux from "outside" since then. Noticed I was not the > only one losing data. From what I've seen the Linux solution was not to > to fix a faulty design but to hack it until it doesn't lose as much. I agree -- EXT2 is kinda crappy. But to be fair, Linux has Reiserfs, and I've heard of EXT3 on the way. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message