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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:32115 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1153 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!nigel.msen.com!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!smurf.sub.org!nadia!delos!tyrell.tynet.sub.org!marsu!root From: root@marsu.tynet.sub.org (Markus Wenzel) Subject: Re: 386bsd, linux: which runs more out of the box? References: <CGD.93Mar23030821@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <hwr.732890376@snert.ka.sub.org> <SCT.93Mar23224452@belnahua.dcs.ed.ac.uk> <1oqlf5$i8b@agate.berkeley.edu> Organization: Palumbian Research Labs Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1993 08:54:22 GMT Message-ID: <1993Mar26.085422.343@marsu.tynet.sub.org> Lines: 22 curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes: >I don't mean to be complaining about free software, but I've lost >a lot of valuable data from the minix fs on a lot of occasions, and >it rather disturbs me when people claim that it's bug-free. Fsck >is a necessary part of the filesystem; if you can't recover all >written data after an arbitrary crash, then your filesystem is >broken. Period. It's alright to blame the fs for crashing, but it's not OK to blame it for losing valuable data. It could not be too valuable if you never thought of regular backups of your work. BTW: Lots of people never reported any trouble with minix fs and even with efs. I'd like to know what other people do with their machines so they get into fs trouble. -- /dev Markus Wenzel, University of Stuttgart /usr/spool/mail wenzel@marsu.tynet.sub.org / @rus.uni-stuttgart.de ~/.ircrc/nick Marsu /etc/motd 'Linux' is no trademark of AT&T.