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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:31303 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1073 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!uunet!faculty!nmrdc1!dsc3pzp From: dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: 386bsd, linux: which runs more out of the box? Message-ID: <C4Hx2A.6z2@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> Date: 26 Mar 93 12:22:57 GMT References: <SCT.93Mar24134609@colonsay.dcs.ed.ac.uk> <1oprgt$pk6@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1993Mar24.205842.5753@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command Lines: 38 In article <1993Mar24.205842.5753@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> farrow@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (J. Scott Farrow) writes: >root@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Square Root) writes: > >>In article <SCT.93Mar24134609@colonsay.dcs.ed.ac.uk> sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk >>(Stephen Tweedie) writes: >>> >>> There have been quite a few reports recently of apparent file system >>> problems occurring because of SCSI problems, but I have not heard of >>> any actual extfs bugs recently. > >>That seems unlikely to have been my problem, since the machine it lost >>on most frequently has an ESDI disk. > >>> If you could give some idea of what your problems are, it might be >>> possible to isolate the problem and even find a solution. > >>It is not worth my time to track it down. > >Then why are you bitching about it? > >For my $.02 worth, I have been using extfs since September and haven't had >a single problem with it. The one time I trashed the fs so bad that the >machine wouldn't boot, I just booted off a floppy, ran efsck, and had no >further problems with it. The Linux file-systems are pretty stable. I have used minix, e2fs, and extfs, all with no problems. I am currently in the process of getting up 386BSD (had to send my HD back for another) for networking and BSD portability, but sure wish the BSD file-system had the "-c" switch on "newfs" the way Linux does on "mkfs". It sure is nice to automagically scan for bad blocks with Linux... -- ============================================================================== phil perucci | "Any opinions expressed are my views, dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil | not the position of any organization" ==============================================================================