Re: dragonfly pdf documentation

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adrian Nida wrote:

> Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 11:57:21PM +1000, Steven Shaw wrote:
> >
> > > Reiserfs and ext3 don't need fsck either though do they? Perhaps you
> > > were running early/unstable versions of either ext3 or reiserfs?
> >
> >
> >
> > In theory yes. In practise ext3 can destroy directories under certain
> > circumstance, reiserfs its whole tree. It happened over the years
> > quite a few times to various people.
>
>
> Heh,  I really hate admitting this, but I lost an entire disk that was 
> running ext3.  I'm sure it was something *I* did.  However, when every 
> single directory and file ends up in /lost+found, it's hard to figure 
> out what cause it.  Of course, praying to the backup gods only works if 
> the person responsible for backups has given them a sacrifice.  Arrgh, 
> that was a bad day.
>
> Adrian

Not to worry.  I once had a ReiserFS live for a whole month with
no problems.  As it was on a rather massive UPS, it might have
gone even longer if I hadn't needed the drive for testing
Aos.

OTOH, the half-dozen attempts *before* that one never lasted
through either a single hard-read error or a couple of power
outages.  'Good in concept' is ReiserFS, and 'maybe someday..',
but for *now* one best pray to the Gods of harware and power.

And ext2 and 3?  Fewer worries about fragmentation
than MS NTFS, but not as robust if/as/when subjected
to indignities.

XFS and JFS, OTOH, were 'donated' by SGI and IBM. Both
have had scores of years, thousands of man-hours, and
*serious* money invested in development and test.

Both are rock solid, as is MKM's Berkeley FFS --> UFS.

Boot from XFS, use JFS for non-boot storage in the
places it serves better than XFS, and you have the
foundations for as durable a Linux as can be.

For sure it will guarantee a more affordable
'entry price', lots more service revenue, and
an easy upgrade to AIX-5L, which has to be a
large part of the reason IBM love's Linux.

For those of us with a more austere business
model, the *BSD's are a much lighter burden.

Bill