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From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 386bsd, linux: which runs more out of the box?
Date: 26 Mar 1993 09:33:25 GMT
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In article <1ou728INNhfn@aludra.usc.edu> jimmyhua@aludra.usc.edu (Jimmy Huang) writes:
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>Umm, yeah that's one of the things i hate about linux. If you do a quick
>reboot, (i.e. flip the switch). your FS sometimes gets permanently screwed. 

The fs/fsck combination is supposed to be designed so that this cannot
happen; if it does, it's a bug, and you should report it.

>Is this true with 386BSD too?

I doubt it.  386BSD's filesystem is very old.

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