Re: [SuSE Linux] CNET News.com - Linux knocked in OS study

[Greg Thomas]

On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Karsten Johansson wrote:

> 
> For the clustering thing, I agree that their information is incorrect.
> 
> But Linux does take a long long time to boot if it is cold-rebooted.  If
> you hit the power switch on an NT box, it takes the same amount of time to
> boot as it does if you didn't do that.  And the file structure remains intact,
> save for files that may have been opened prior to the reboot.
>

I keep hearing this but unless I'm doing something wrong our NT boxes take
just as long as Linux to reboot when they're shutdown improperly.  Here NT
always runs chkdsk in this case which takes just as long as fsck on same
size partitions.
 
> Linux forces a file system check and has lots of things to fix when this 
> occurs.  On a large drive with lots of files, this takes a *really* long time.
> 

Greg

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