Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The Monday 2006-12-25 at 14:44 -0500, John E. Perry wrote: > >> So, two weeks ago, I got what I see as good reason -- my / partition was >> suddenly unavailable after a zen update. fsck.reiser brought everything >> back, but that's what finally made install 10.2 (which everyone is >> saying is much better than 10.1 (my experince agrees). > > And... didn't you ever have to fsck any ext3 partition to recover from > some dissaster, sucessfully I hope?
No. All my linux experience has been with ext2, and all my professional experience has been with VMS, various RTOS's, MSDOS, Windows, and small standalone systems. I never had a crash that I couldn't identify as a hardware problem, and I never dug deep enough into linux to learn all the intricacies of file systems and such. I only dumped Windows two years ago because suse9.0 appeared to work well enough that I could depend upon it for my contract work. OpenOffice was the trigger -- it meant I could deal with clients chained to Windows without being chained myself. So I didn't have to get XP and Office. That's a normal thing for any > filesystem. All can get corrupted - otherwise, the fsck utility would not > even exist. Sure. But it's rare enough with ext2 that I never had a problem that I couldn't identify as a hardware disk crash, and several people on this list complained of mysterious reiser3 partition corruption. As I say, I didn't take them too seriously until it happened to me. -- John Perry Embedded Electronics (757)813-6109 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
