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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:30965 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1002 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!uunet!pipex!bnr.co.uk!uknet!edcastle!dcs.ed.ac.uk!sct From: sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: 386bsd, linux: which runs more out of the box? Message-ID: <SCT.93Mar24134609@colonsay.dcs.ed.ac.uk> Date: 24 Mar 93 13:46:09 GMT References: <hwr.732890376@snert.ka.sub.org> <SCT.93Mar23224452@belnahua.dcs.ed.ac.uk> <1oog8o$og4@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1oovb4INN7kf@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <1op7io$r4n@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Sender: cnews@dcs.ed.ac.uk (UseNet News Admin) Organization: University of Edinburgh Dept. of Computer Science, Scotland Lines: 27 In-Reply-To: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu's message of 24 Mar 93 08:53:44 GMT In article <1op7io$r4n@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu>, mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes: >> I have been using a single linux partition with extfs, as root, for >> months, and since the 0.99 kernel it has been steady as a rock. > Would you care to trade machines, then? Whether or not it works on > yours is irrelevant; I have different hardware, and I can assure you > that it is *not* stable on the machines I have. Strange. Do you run more than one filesystem on your systems, so that you can uniquely attribute your problems to extfs, and not to any other part of the system? There have been quite a few reports recently of apparent file system problems occurring because of SCSI problems, but I have not heard of any actual extfs bugs recently. I have run extfs on my own machine since starting Linux, and have _never_ encountered a problem except as a result of my crashing the kernel during kernel development. If you could give some idea of what your problems are, it might be possible to isolate the problem and even find a solution. Cheers, Stephen Tweedie. --- Stephen Tweedie <sct@uk.ac.ed.dcs> (Internet: <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>) Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.