Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Mittwoch 30 Dezember 2009, Marcus Wanner wrote:
> On 12/29/2009 7:17 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 00:08 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> >> just think a moment of the tons of bug fixes constantly going into
> >> ext4. That
> >> crap is not stable. Pre-alpha maybe.
> >
> > People say this from time to time, yet I have been running ext4 on my
> > root directory of my laptop since July 2008.  The only problem I've had
> > since then is one time it would not mount on boot.  I merely had to fsck
> > it from a live media an then it was ok (nothing lost or currupted).  But
> > that was a long time ago when it was still ext4dev.  And I've had
> > numerous crashes and battery depletions on the laptop without incident.
> > So the pre-alpha FUD that some people are spreading is either not true
> > or I just happen to be the luckiest ext4 user in the world :-).
>
> For my two cents, a while back I was on ext4 and was trying to get xorg
> working. My problem was that the input drivers were not working (because
> they had not been recompiled after an update), so once I ran startx, no
> keyboard or mouse input was registered. This meant that every time I
> tried something which I thought would fix it, I had to hard reset the
> system and look at the logs. The only problem was that the logs had the
> wrong contents because they had been "written to" but not actually
> flushed to the disk, and it took me about 10 hard resets to figure that
> out. Even though I was running ext4, I never lost a thing (except the
> logs :p).
>
> For the curious, I eventually got good logs by running shutdown -h 1 in
> one tty right before running startx in the other, and that shutdown the
> system correctly.
>
> Marcus
>

you could have set up acpid to switch to vt1 when the power button is pressed.

This is a nice safeguard against a misbehaving X.