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From: hagan@freya.cs.umass.edu (Craig I. Hagan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 386bsd, linux: which runs more out of the box?
Date: 24 Mar 93 22:49:56
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In-reply-to: root@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu's message of 24 Mar 1993 09:34:05 -0500
It is not worth my time to track it down.
Agreed, you seem to be a rather busy person. However, to those
who insist upon the stability of ext{2}fs (which i haven't have
problems with, either), realize that if there is even a slight chance
of a bug, it should be looked into seriously, instead of being
denyed: and the following considerations taken into account for
debugging:
when do the problems arise? under heavy loads?
under what hardware platforms? does it have problems with
defective media?
I will immediately comment that i cannot use mke2fs on one of my
drives (nore mkefs) which dos formatted. It has one area with
some wierd problem (norton calibrate blew up somehting having
to do with the voice coil, and it has trouble past track 29 of 1224
with low level formats ..but DOS disk manager did the job,
and made dos run on it).
if dos can run on it, then linux should run on it...therefore, i see
a potential problem in the works, possibly with teh drivers themselves,
and not the filessytem.
-- craig