In epistula a Manuel Ravasio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> die horaque Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:47:46 -0700 (PDT):
> Really? > I have a completely different experience: I never managed to > completely loose a filesystem, except by on OpenBSD... > > I've been using slackware linux on reiserfs and xfs for many years > now, on my home PCs and company laptop (so, no real production > environment) and I'm happy with both their speed and reliability. I > caused many crashes, mostly by suddenly turning the PCs off in the > middle of data transfer and I never lost a single file. > Recently I decided to give OpenBSD a try, just to taste something > different, and I'm really enthusiastic about it as > firewall/proxy/DNS/DHCP server as well as desktop environment for my > laptop. I really love the solidity and internal coherence of the > system, its ease of management and the general impression of "good, > old, solid computing for real men" that most current linux > distributions completely lack (that's why I stick to slackware :-) ). > > The only shortcomings I found up to now are FFS fragility with > respect to sudden poweroffs (I've already lost root filesystem twice, > beyond fsck recovery capabilities, so I had to reinstall/restore from > scratch), and a general sluggishness of X11 lacking DRI support. > > Probably it all depends on my lack of experience, so maybe my boxes > are far from perfectly tuned up; I hope that spending more and more > time tampering with OpenBSD and following this mailing list, I will > eventually get proficient enough to tune up my systems as well as I > got to do with linux :-) . > > > Thank you all, > byee > > Manuel interestingly, i just had an experience at a customer's site i want to share in this respect: they use *cough* GNU/Linux *cough*, RHEL. and XFS. XFS is pretty cool. however, they lost data. but it was not only about 'losing' data, it was about a hidden data loss. some data was lost, some not. some had weird ctime, some not. this is surely thanks to the most perfect implementation of an *opened* FS (here: XFS) by the GNU/Linux guys. pretty well done. what happened? a server had a backplane crash, an externally mounted XFS volume was shut down 'unclean'. although it was not that big (<1TByte), the desaster happened. in more than ten years of using IRIX (and thusly, XFS) i never lost one single sucking file. :)
