From: i1041905@ws.rz.tu-bs.de (Michael Bischoff) Subject: Re: EFS stable enough? Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 14:44:17 GMT
In article <1993Feb8.113853.15998@netcom.com> jsteele@netcom.com (John Steele) writes:
In <C2361v.3Bw@mach1.wlu.ca> kfisher3@mach1.wlu.ca (kevin fisher U) writes:
>I was just wondering if the extended file system is stable and safe enough
>to use yet. I'm using .99pl4 now, and would appreciate any feedback from
>anyone using the EFS.
Hi,
After an ext filesystem crash on 0.98.3 (I had also a FAT mountet) last
October, I upgraded to 0.98.5 and this January I upgraded to 0.99.4.
I now use 30M minix partition as root, and 200 M ext fs as /usr. (IDE)
I do efsck on the unmountet extfs before shutdown and I have
LOTS of files on the ext fs (> 10K). I have never had any problem.
Thus, either efsck is a NOP program, or extfs is pretty stable!
(I think, the latter one is correct :-)
Needless to say, my machine is active at least 4 hours every day.
So, if you have an IDE drive, why bother with 14-byte-length filenames?
Michael