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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    Re: EFS
From:       Ulf Zimmermann <ulf () Lamb ! net>
Date:       1996-10-31 21:51:24
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> As Ulf Zimmermann wrote:
> 
> (efs unstable)
> 
> > I never did that observation on 5.3, also not 6.2. Irix is for me
> > one of the best unix machines there you can press the reset button.
> 
> Except they don't have a reset button (well, only a fairly hidden
> one).
> 
> The posted opinion is just my experience, i've seen more than one efs
> partition gone with nobody really knowing what has been all damaged.
> (The 5.3 systems used to crash very often with thei alpha-quality ISDN
> driver.)

Yes, the european ISDN driver in 5.3 need sseveral patches before you can
consider it working. At that time I tried to use them, SGI germany
was not able to get me the patches online. It took them 2 weeks to send
me then a DAT tape with ALL patches at that time.

> 
> All this is history for me, it's been at my former employer, and
> they've meanwhile trashed the Indys.  But it makes me reluctant about
> the purpose behind an `efs' implementation for us...  IMHO, ufs is
> much more stable, at least the BSD implementation.

Aehm, current employee, as that is right now SGI I need to use them ;-)

> 
> -- 
> cheers, J"org
> 
> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
> 

Ulf.

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