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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4052 comp.os.linux.misc:29427 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!henson!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swiss.ans.net!newsgate.watson.ibm.com!hawnews.watson.ibm.com!sycamore!root From: root@sycamore.aix.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com () Subject: Re: Meta-data (Was:LINUX SUCKS!!!!) Sender: news@hawnews.watson.ibm.com (NNTP News Poster) Message-ID: <Cyxwr5.5q67@hawnews.watson.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 8 Nov 1994 08:25:51 GMT Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM. References: <395u3t$ape@epiwrl.entropic.com> <397n15$3fe@goliat.eik.bme.hu> <CHRISB.94Nov3150435@stork.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au> <39ki4e$g0m@news.compulink.com> <Cyx1oI.Jzo@rex.uokhsc.edu> Nntp-Posting-Host: sycamore.aix.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Lines: 19 Benjamin Z. Goldsteen (ben@rex.uokhsc.edu) wrote: > derek@cid.compulink.com (Derek Snider) writes: > >Chris Bitmead (chrisb@stork.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au) wrote: > >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. > Ditto, I have had some real screwed up stuff with Linux (Slackware > 1.20, I think). And some it wasn't fixed by the fsck program. Something is wrong here,... I have a 486dx33 running a scsi disk using ext2fs ever since it was first brought out (originally I used the old extfs but it *was* bad) I have never experienced fs corruption over the course of approx 2 years. Believe me, that machine has had it's fair share of reboots and power kick offs. The file system is stable but I do keep a copy of the latest e2fsck packages at hand.