> XFS aka. eXtremely Futile System So goes life: I never have had a problem with xfs--you have. The notebook is one and half months old. The desktop I have too is much older. And it uses xfs as well ... xfs since I have migrated from reiser4, another very, very good fs. (I have migrated because of Hans Reiser tragedy with his wife, you might know about what I am talking; reiser4 demanded a patch at every kernel release, and the patches did start to lag behind too much.)
Figure, I have started with reiser3 even with 2.2.x, and have moved to reiser4 with the first 2.6.x. Brilliant, superb software!, I virtually never have had problems with both reiser3 and 4. (Ditto with xfs.) And believe me, I have unwillingly tested *in vivo* those fs well. The desktop runs 24/7 ... power outages permitting [I don't use any UPS longer]. That makes ...?! one-two power outages a day on the average; with days having more than ten power outages. (Sumatra belongs also to the regions in the world where lightnings hit the most.) Example: power outage; after two minutes, power is back; system starts to reboot; after 40 seconds [15 waiting in LILO] power dies again; after one minute power is back again; system begins rebooting; 50 seconds later, peng--next power outage; blackout for one hour; power is back; all goes well for the next six hours; peng, next power outage. Etc. Disagree: xfs, is even more reliable than reiser4 in my experience. (But I have loved reiser4 very much.) In a sense you remember me ... have you read The Three Spinners from the Brother Grimm's Fairy Tales? Voila', those three strange women, "the first of whom had a broad flat foot, the second such a great underlip that it hung down over her chin, and the third had a broad thumb." (And read the fairy tale to discover why if you don't know yet.) You are good. But if you are living ahead others really, or think so, then learn to accept that: you are walking in a not much crowded area by definition. Don't let complaining--just because living in a rarefied air is hard--become your *professional*, chronic deformation. There exist many, many other people who have even more right than you--though for other reasons--to complain. (But they don't or can't.) Bah, *selamat tidur* (here it's nearly 03h), and cheers, /Roy -- SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS tak bisa menari dikatakan lantai yang SSSSS . s l a c k w a r e SSSSSS berjungkit--cannot dance but blame the SSSSS +------------ linux SSSSSS floor as uneven [blaming the wrong reason] SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
