Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 14 Sep 2001 22:37:58 +0200 | From | Otto Wyss <> | Subject | Re: How errorproof is ext2 fs? |
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> > it does not need a good error proof fs. Still can't ext2 be made a little more > > error proof? > > First, you seem to be making quite a few assumptions which are not > necessarily correct: > > 1) Just because an OS does not _tell_ you there was a problem does not > necessarily mean there wasn't one. In particular, MacOS is notorious > for not "bothering" users with detailed (or in many cases any) > information about problems. I don't know about HFS fragility in > Well I can assure you I used DiskFirstAid and Norton Utilities on the Mac. Neither found any problems. Since I use MacOS9, my Mac crashes at least once a month but I never ever lost anything. Most of the time my USB-keyboard/-mouse doesn't react anymore after switching back from my Linux system. Usually I simply press the reset switch after a few minutes.
Besides Linux also does not react occasionally when switching my USB-keyboard/-mouse but since I also have an AT-keyboard handy I don't have to reset it.
> 3) You're basing your linux experience on (apparently) only one > incident. As a professional sysadmin, I've experienced many many
I'm not bashing linux, I'm only stating that MacOS9 (or HFS+) has a nice feature Linux (or its fs's) lacks. My experience shows clearly that I had at least 10 craches on the Mac durning the last year but I never lost anything. During the same time I had 2 crashes on my linux, one due to the USB-problem without a handy AT-keyboard, the second now due to a malfunction el3diag.
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