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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:31038 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1014 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!uunet!pipex!marble.uknet.ac.uk!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!ira.uka.de!smurf.sub.org!news From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: 386bsd, linux: which runs more out of the box? Date: 25 Mar 1993 00:17:38 +0100 Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG Lines: 23 Message-ID: <1oqq6i$a9i@smurf.sub.org> References: <1oovb4INN7kf@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <1op7io$r4n@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <SCT.93Mar24134609@colonsay.dcs.ed.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In comp.os.linux, article <SCT.93Mar24134609@colonsay.dcs.ed.ac.uk>, sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) writes: > > 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. > For what it's worth, I once had two copies of libc-4.2 on my system (on one extfs partition) and could hang Linux reliably by running make on each (concurently of course). The system didn't even accept the special "report" keys. I switched to xiafs and the problem went away. Granted that this might be the low level block handler's or even the Adaptec driver's fault, but I still feel safer this way. ;-) -- Q. What's the Chtorran national sport? A. Hide and eat -- Matthias Urlichs -- urlichs@smurf.sub.org -- urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de /(o\ Humboldtstrasse 7 -- 7500 Karlsruhe 1 -- Germany -- +49-721-9612521 \o)/