M9. wrote:
Sid Boyce schreef:
M9. wrote:
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Since reiser is accused of murdering his wife, nobody maintains the
fs.. :-(
Totally untrue. Many good reads on the subject out there. reiser2 is not
being further developed, but the reiser4 team is very hard at work and
they have many customers using reiser4. http://kerneltrap.org/node/8102
Not totaly, the article (nice to tell me about it ;-) shows the fear was
there...
This pleases me, never had any problems with reiserfs,
i mostly am not realy in a hurry when booting up, so if some checking
has to be done is ok with me.
I've been using reiserfs since about SuSE 6.2, that was back when 20 Gig
was the big har drive. I had a power cut and fsck.ext2 took ages while
the SuSE 6.2 box was up with no delay. Likewise, I've had no problems
with reiserfs. When many guys were rubbishing reiserfs, saying it was
causing corruptions and I was also having corruptions, I was advised to
go to ext3, but I got corruptions with ext3 also. The problem turned out
to be a bad IDE controller.
Even Sun has gone away from slicing and dicing large disks into smaller
ones. I've heard the arguments about accidentally erasing a partition,
but they are all under / and if you rm -rf /, checkmate! I always have /
and swap only, even on the largest Sun/Fujitsu SPARC Enterprise systems
when I used to do Solaris installs for customers.
I myself accidentally errased a few, not nice, i agree. Not having a
back-up, is lots of extra work, not to speak of unreplaceble things like
family digipics...(reason to burn them from then..)
But for me totaly no reason not to use them.
Since there are these large disks, the reason to partition them is even
more nessesary, one can now install various OS on one disk, without any
problem.
Cutting these OS partitions apart would seem not wanted, but i do still
believe in doing exactly that ;-)
I am from the time, a 500MB HDD was all I had, and the trouble i have
had every day to get about 20% free space, you do not want to know...
The idea of: Room enough, just throw all on it!, does not fit me.
I prefer to use virtual machines. I started using VMware back in the
early days to run WFW 3.11 under Linux, I used their 6.0 betas which
have run out of licence and I'm not prepared to buy 6.0. Virtualbox is
OK for the x86 box and I'm about to test KVM any day now, everything is
in place, just need to try one of their built images. Rebooting a Linux
box is something I rarely do other than to bring up a new kernel. I may
look again at kexec as it has been out a long time, partially worked
when it first came out.
But as many men, as many opinions..
And as long as 'i' do not have to do it the way 'you' want me to, we all
are happy ;-)
Long live the freedom of choice!!!
Hear, hear!, but about 13 years ago I asked some guys why they chopped
their disks up and then were forced to have symlinks going every which
way when space ran out, answer was they didn't know, that was what they
were told and that's what they did. Likewise I asked colleagues why at
every command prompt on Solaris they hit the enter key about 10 times
before typing in a command - they saw the "experts" doing it. In 1993 we
got a new Sun workstation in the office and it ran out of space with the
way the disk was sliced as then recommended by Sun, so in order to build
software, they had to NFS mount the Linux PC I had set up and build it
on the Linux hard drive. Whatever keeps the people warm and happy, but
if you ever saw time wasting practices like guys under Solaris not using
bash, preferring to use "ksh -o vi" and using vi commands with the
dexterity of a concert pianist to recall and modify the command line,
you would think it's more like fat, dumb and happy. Fallacies can and
often do become "Best Practice".
Regards
Sid.
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Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot
Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support
Specialist, Cricket Coach
Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks
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