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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:27:46
Message-Id: 492BB6F9.5040708@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems by Dirk Heinrichs
1 Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
2 > Am Montag, 24. November 2008 22:09:52 schrieb Dale:
3 >
4 >
5 >> I wouldn't use XFS unless
6 >> it was all that was left. I tried it once a while back and found out it
7 >> does not like power failures at all. Each time I had a power failure, I
8 >> had to reinstall from scratch.
9 >>
10 >
11 > Hmm, I use it because of its resistance to power failures. When was it that
12 > you had such problems?
13 >
14 > Bye...
15 >
16 > Dirk
17 >
18 >
19 >
20
21 Its been a while but it happened several times. I just got tired of
22 having to reinstall every time the power blinked. Turned out the wire
23 was loose on the transformer so they blinked a lot, every couple days or
24 so. I think it was Mandrake 9.2.
25
26 I have had a power failure or two with reiserfs and it recovered. It
27 did the check thing but ran fine.
28
29 Just my experience. Your mileage may vary.
30
31 Dale
32
33 :-) :-

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>