From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 16:37:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 16:37:44 -0400 Received: from relay01.cablecom.net ([62.2.33.101]:52747 "EHLO relay01.cablecom.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 16:37:36 -0400 Message-ID: <3BA26AA6.CAC6D2D9@bluewin.ch> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 22:37:58 +0200 From: Otto Wyss Reply-To: otto.wyss@bluewin.ch X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: de,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Stewart CC: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" Subject: Re: How errorproof is ext2 fs? In-Reply-To: <3BA1258F.5CC18A2C@bluewin.ch> <3BA1E670.9010300@foogod.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > 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. O. Wyss