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From: greg@halcyon.com (greg naber)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 386bsd, linux: which runs more out of the box?
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Date: 26 Mar 93 07:50:16 GMT
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card@masi.ibp.fr (Remy CARD) writes:

>>>It is fairly safe to say that efs and minix-fs are bug free now.  They

>>	I don't think so. I can point you at people who lost gobs of
>>files to efs yesterday. No way is efs bug-free yet.

>	Please do !  Tell these people that they'd better send me a mail with
>the description of their problems and, maybe, I'll be able to help and correct
>the bugs if I find some.

Well, I lost a bunch of files yesterday, but I don't think a rm -fr is a
problem for you to fix;)

>	If some people have problems with efs (or e2fs) but don't contact me
>to report them, I will never be able to know that these problems exist and
>to correct them, except if they hit me too (and that's quite unlikely to happen
>since I am a very satisfied user of efs and e2fs ;-)

I too am a happy camper with efs/efs2 have been since the start of both,
it is rather easy to switch if you have a couple of partitions to tar up the
other on and reformat.

Now with the kernel advances along with your ext2 file system, things are
humming right along. 

Thanks!

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