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From: dthumim@athena.mit.edu (Daniel J Thumim)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 386bsd, linux: which runs more out of the box?
Date: 24 Mar 1993 06:33:08 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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>Not a chance in Hell. efs is not stable.
>
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>Scheme White heterosexual atheist male (WHAM) pride!
This is simply not true. I have been using a single linux partition
with extfs, as root, for months, and since the 0.99 kernel it has been
steady as a rock. There were a few problems with 0.98 kernels, but
now there are no problems at all. It's gotten fragmented over time,
so that a kernel compile thrashes quite a bit, but no problems what-
soever. I'll be upgrading to e2fs sooner or later for better perform-
ance, I was thinking I'd wait for the efs->e2fs conversion program
from Remy but maybe I won't. I'm adding another filesystem now anyway,
so I will use e2fs. But don't call extfs unstable, it's not!
-- |)aniel Thumim
dthumim@mit.edu