--- David Walluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For me, it's usually just for workstation use, but I'm glad to see
> journaling as I have had ext2 crash so many times and have lost so much
> data that I'm glad if we can finally put an end to all of that.
I guess you mean **you** have crashed your machine so many times ... Can you
tell me exactly how many of those thousands of crashes were caused *by* the
filesystem?
I have used linux since the .9 days, and my current machine is a "dynamic
install" that started as RH4.x and during the course of the last 5 years or so
it has evolved like this RH4.x -->RH5.x--(HD crash:recovered a 100% of
/home)-->RH Rawhide-->RH Rawhide with raid 0-->MDK Cooker; all of this without
reinstall after RH5.2. I update RPMs almost daily from cooker. All of this time
using ext2 until a couple weeks ago when I journalized all my ext2 filesystems.
And guess what, amount of data lost **ZERO**! Hell, I even had a HD crash where
I opened the HD case and flushed alcohol with a cotton ball on the disk
surfaces (while spinning!) until I could read all the blocks of my /home. Even
though I have always ran Linux on the cutting edge, my machine seldom crashes.
Draw your own conclusion ...
My peers and I have a nickname for Unix admins that loose a lot of data ...
"bit suckers" ;-)
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Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE
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