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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!apollo.hp.com!netnews From: sommerfeld@apollo.hp.com (Bill Sommerfeld) Subject: Re: I know this one is as old as the hills..... Sender: usenet@apollo.hp.com (Usenet News) Message-ID: <CMGKLu.E3w@apollo.hp.com> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 17:01:06 GMT References: <2lfihn$bjt@inet.up.ac.za> <2lg5d6$8f1@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <hastyCMEwLM.Gn0@netcom.com> <2llf7f$qrn@explorer.clark.net> Nntp-Posting-Host: snarfblatt.ch.apollo.hp.com Organization: Hewlett Packard, Chelmsford Site Lines: 23 In article <2llf7f$qrn@explorer.clark.net>, Eric S. Hvozda <ack@clark.net> wrote: >>I have been bashing away at my systems for the last two years with the >>exception of a brief period of having problems with my scsi cables >>and my adaptec 1542c --- *bsd has never wiped out my filesystem. > >I can atest to this. I got tired of losing ext2 partitions under linux and >e2fsck not being able to recover them. It got really annoying when it turned >out to be /. Hell, It got to where I could even repeat it on a regular basis. > >ufs seems to be very resilent under *BSD; I've had people even kill the power. >It may take 5 reboots (that's an extreme case), but / lives! Yup; the Berkeley "FFS" file system seems to mostly survive even in the presence of sporadic bugs in the underlying device driver *assuming you fsck on each reboot*. You can lose a few files, but the partition doesn't turn into complete spaghetti. Device driver bugs can on occasion do some very strange things, though.. - Bill