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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:31046 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1018 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!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!cbnewse!sph1 From: sph1@cbnewse.cb.att.com (stephen.p.hill) Subject: Re: 386bsd, linux: which runs more out of the box? Organization: AT&T Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1993 00:16:49 GMT Message-ID: <1993Mar25.001649.11604@cbnewse.cb.att.com> Followup-To: poster Summary: no fs problems References: <CGD.93Mar23030821@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <JWINSTEA.93Mar24143557@fenris.claremont.edu> Lines: 49 In article <JWINSTEA.93Mar24143557@fenris.claremont.edu>, jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) writes: (in response to many other postings about fs problems ) > What were the problems? I've seen a couple of people that very > vehemently say that the minix (or ext or ext2 or xia) filesystem is > buggy, and then provide absolutely no clue as to what problem they > had! ... > I do run fsck on boot on all of my partitions, and I haven't had a > significant filesystem problem with Linux since the very first > versions of the extended filesystem. Not a single one, and that's > under lots of heavy use. (Heavy use = X + kernel compilation + other > stuff). So many people are posting about having problems that perhaps there really is some kind of problem? Maybe a kernel bug which only causes problems with specific hardware? I have never had a single filesystem problem at all (not counting the 3 or 4 times fsck has reported something minor AND FIXED IT). I started 11 months ago with 4 minix filesystems. For that last 3 months I have had one minix fs ( the root fs ) and one ext2fs (/usr). Nary a problem at all. On the other hand, I usually only run it for about 3 - 4 hours a day. Occasionally I will leave it up for 12 or 14 hours if I want to do a loooong unattended download or a huge compile like pspice. I fsck both the fs's about once a week rather than every boot: I am lazy. I often do crazy thing ( like 'mv'ing sizable files between the two filesystems ) that cause lots of disk I/O at the same time I am eating up CPU time with something else. I run other heavy disk I/O during kernel compiles, etc. I have never had a problem. > If you aren't backing up important data on a regular basis, you are > broken. Period. I guess I am broken, then. I keep thinking about doing it, but I never get around to it. No major disasters yet... (it is sure to happen after saying that ) Stephen Hill sph@ihlpe.ih.att.com sph1@cbnewse.att.com Linux is great!