From: zrzm0370@helpdesk.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Joerg Scheurich) Subject: Re: how safe is minix filesystem in power failure? Date: 19 Apr 1993 16:47:37 GMT
In article <C5JyK5.1BD@bigcomm.gun.de> ado@bigcomm.gun.de (Christoph Adomeit) writes:
>hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes:
>
>>jim@n5ial.mythical.com (Jim Graham) writes:
>
>>>like the subject says.... how safe (I realize this is all on relative
>>>terms, here) is the plain minix filesystem (all I've got right now) in
>>>cases where, say, the power fails?
>I have NO experiences especially with the Minix-fs, but I use Unix,Linux,Sun,
>whatever for 5 years now. From about 200 Crashes I have seen at customers or
>wherever, it only happened 2-times that a fs was so destroyed that it was
>not reparable. 90 percent where absolutely ok after an fsck, in about 10% there
>were only 1 or 2 files destroyed.
I have NO experiences especially with the Minix-fs, but I use Unix,Linux,Irix,
whatever. From 20 crashes I have seen here on a commercial UNIX system
for a IBM-PC-clone it happened about 20 times that a this fs was not reperable.
I don't think, you can say, Unix filesystems all always rather save, this
can extremly differ in different implementations of unix.
so long
MUFTI
ps: the IBM-PC-clone run now under Linux and we changed to linux, we had
no nonrepairable crash.