Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 6 Oct 2001 00:27:41 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | journaling and devel [was Re: Development Setups] |
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Hi!
> > I was thinking of starting with a modern machine for developing/ > > compiling on, and then older machine(s) for testing. This way I > > would not risk losing data if I oops or somesuch. > > With journalling filesystems you needn't worry _too_ much about losing > data; depending of course on what you're hacking on. Having two separate > boxen for development and testing is mostly valuable because you can keep > working when you break it - it doesn't take your entire desktop environment > down with it.
I disagree.. With journal filesystem, when something is silently corrupting your disk, you'll never know. With ext2, you sometimes sync & reset to make sure your disks are still healthy. I would not recommend journaling on experimental boxes. Pavel -- Philips Velo 1: 1"x4"x8", 300gram, 60, 12MB, 40bogomips, linux, mutt, details at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/velo/index.html.
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