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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:31051 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1019 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!boulder!ucsu!fido!farrow From: farrow@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (J. Scott Farrow) Subject: Re: 386bsd, linux: which runs more out of the box? Message-ID: <1993Mar24.205842.5753@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> Sender: news@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: fido.colorado.edu Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder References: <hwr.732890376@snert.ka.sub.org> <1oovb4INN7kf@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <1op7io$r4n@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <SCT.93Mar24134609@colonsay.dcs.ed.ac.uk> <1oprgt$pk6@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 20:58:42 GMT Lines: 31 root@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Square Root) writes: >In article <SCT.93Mar24134609@colonsay.dcs.ed.ac.uk> sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk >(Stephen Tweedie) writes: >> >> 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. >That seems unlikely to have been my problem, since the machine it lost >on most frequently has an ESDI disk. >> If you could give some idea of what your problems are, it might be >> possible to isolate the problem and even find a solution. >It is not worth my time to track it down. Then why are you bitching about it? For my $.02 worth, I have been using extfs since September and haven't had a single problem with it. The one time I trashed the fs so bad that the machine wouldn't boot, I just booted off a floppy, ran efsck, and had no further problems with it. Scott -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- J. Scott Farrow - Student SysAdmin/Programmer, University of Colorado Computing & Network Services, Boulder, Colorado, USA, phone:(303)492-4428 Internet: farrow@spot.colorado.edu