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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:31161 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1042 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!curtis 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: 25 Mar 1993 19:06:32 GMT Organization: CS Dept. Snakepit - Do Not Feed. Lines: 40 Message-ID: <1osvro$da@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <SCT.93Mar23224452@belnahua.dcs.ed.ac.uk> <1oqlf5$i8b@agate.berkeley.edu> <JWINSTEA.93Mar24143557@fenris.claremont.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cobra.cs.berkeley.edu In article <JWINSTEA.93Mar24143557@fenris.claremont.edu> jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) writes: >In article <1oqlf5$i8b@agate.berkeley.edu> curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes: > > In article <SCT.93Mar23224452@belnahua.dcs.ed.ac.uk> sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) writes: > >To the very best of my knowledge - and filesystems is What I Do on Linux > >- there are no known bugs in the efs, minix or xiafs file systems. > > I've had huge problems with the minix filesystem in a number of > recent releases, and I've seen reports of similar-looking efs > snafus. This isn't a SCSI problem; I have IDE. > >What were the problems? I posted a long, detailed description about a week ago; I don't remember the title, but it was in the same thread with someone named Carsten Fischer, from Germany - reporting exactly the same problems with SCSI and efs! A very curious bug. Do the sort of people who like to fix bugs generally read c.o.l.? Or should I just send a bug-report straight to Linus? >If you want an /etc/rc script that handles automatically doing fsck >upon bootup, let me know and I'll send you one. I have my own, but it's probably not as good as yours. Why don't you post it? I think a lot of people would find it useful. Again, it really disturbs me to see any kind of a prebuilt Unix distribution without automatic fsck; if you don't check your disk you are putting yourself in for a lot of heavy and uncomfortable shit. Not, perhaps, a problem for us gurus, but it's something that a novice could really get bit by. >If you aren't backing up important data on a regular basis, you are >broken. Period. Shit, just back up every minute, and you won't need a filesystem at all! c