On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 20:25 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:14:06 -0500, Joe Menola wrote: > > > > > And DON'T use XFS if you can't afford an UPS. > > > > > > Unless you're using a laptop. > > > > Solar UPS? > > Battery! > actually laptops are worse - on mine laptop-mode doesnt detect when a battery runs out - so everything goes black!
On one occasion I lost most of an ext3 file system, so I went back to reiserfs and no more problems. I have lost small areas of data with reiserfs (nothing recent though - very stable), but on ext3 Ive lost whole systems (desktops, and the laptop mentioned above). BillK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
