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From: andreas@knobel.knirsch.de (Andreas Klemm)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: FYI.. benchmarks on linux and 386bsd
Date: 18 Oct 1993 22:41:25 -0000
Organization: Andreas Klemm, 41469 Neuss, Germany
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References: <HSU.93Oct15200852@laphroaig.cs.hut.fi> <DERAADT.93Oct15124106@newt.fsa.ca> <1993Oct18.011943.21250@finbol.toppoint.de> <1993Oct18.132419.21519@cm.cf.ac.uk> <1993Oct18.155123.26638@kf8nh.wariat.org>
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bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:

>In article <1993Oct18.132419.21519@cm.cf.ac.uk> paul@myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) writes:
>>In article <1993Oct18.011943.21250@finbol.toppoint.de> jschief@finbol.toppoint.de writes:
>>>deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) writes:
>>>>No thanks. I want reliability of my filesystems during a crash.
>>>We tried to setup X11 for Linux needed to switch off about 15 times,
>>>no problem.
>>>I swiched off a system compiling a new kernel, no problem for 
>>>ex2fs & Linux.
>>>I call this a good filesystem.
>>
>>I noticed in a previous posting that a Linux'er was whacking his reset
>>button and then not fsck'ing his system when it came back up.
>>
>>Is this normal for Linux. Your filesystem may well appear to work when

>Nope.  If anything, current Linux releases tend to fsck a bit more often than
>they really need to (e.g. ignore the "clean" flag in the superblock).

Slackware contains the bootutils-0.1 (a mount/umount/fsck replacement)
since release 1.0.2. So the clean flag isn't ignored anymore, filesystem 
checks are now only then performed if needed. Too bad that other distribution
maker don't care about this ...

Andreas ///
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Andreas Klemm                 /\/\____ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH 
andreas@knobel.knirsch.de ___/\/\/     andreas@sunny.wup.de (Unix Support)