On Sat, 27 May 2000 - Anton Graham, you wrote:
| Submitted 27-May-00 by Bruce Endries:
| | I have on too many occasions seen Linux machines shut off
| | improperly and never run again until the OS is re-installed.
|
| This is like using explosives to solve a rodent problem. You destroy
| the old house and build a new one. You lose everything of value that
| was in the original.
|
| I have indeed had problems with an ext2 file system that prevented a
| proper boot, but if you are patient you can recover the existing
| system without catastrophic data loss. The tools are there, but you
| need to know how to use them *before* you need them.
|
| | I admit, sometimes, it will do it. But sometimes isn't good enough.
|
| The vast majority of time it will recover just fine. On occasion,
| user intervention is required, typically if the disk was being written
| to when the power was interrupted.
|
| | As much as I dislike Windows, I can always count on Windows
| | coming back from this kind of situation. It will complain, run
| | scandisk, and come back up. You might have some application
| | files corrupted, but at least the OS will run.
|
| Sure-fire way to make Windows unuseable: Try removing the primary
| video adapter in a dual head system. Mandrake (via Kudzu) detects
| this situation and has you reconfigure X. That is a real show stopper.
The only problem I have with kudzu, is that it decides my mouse (actually a
track ball) has been removed once in a while. I tell it to keep the
configuration, and no problems - just a little irritating, but I expect less
than perfect behavior from the newer applications. I am confident that it will
be better in future incarnations.
|
| Also, I *have* seen Windows die completely after an improper shutdown.
| Rare to be certain, but it does happen.
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