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From: derek@cid.compulink.com (Derek Snider)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Meta-data (Was:LINUX SUCKS!!!!)
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Date: 7 Nov 1994 06:40:14 GMT
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Chris Bitmead (chrisb@stork.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au) wrote:

: >This means that if the object is there, then it is not corrupted.
: >
: >BTW.: anyone experimented with NetBSD's (4.4BSD's) lfs, concerning
: >reliability?

I've had lots of filesystem problems (using ext2fs)...
Crosslinked files, bad inode counts, files sharing inodes, duplicate
inodes, I/O errors on a hard drive with no bad sectors... and worse!
A nightmare to me is shutting down linux while there is file activity...
Heck... I have problems even if there seems to be no disk activity.

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