On 16 Jan 2001, Jean Francois Martinez wrote:

> Windows was designed with crashes in mind so AFAIK it does not cache as much as
> Linux do and repairs are faster.   I still have to see the Windows repair
> utilities prompt the user for what to do with inode number 152568.

I haven't seen its source, but I'd guess they're just assuming the user
wants to delete the broken inode. They're probably doing something
comparable to
yes |e2fsck /whatever
at startup.

> This
> happens in Linux (it is not designed for crashing) and to add insult to injury
> the keytables are not loaded when fsck happens because RedHat does not put a
> copy of the keytable in / like Mandrake does so you have no national keyboard
> unttil /usr is mounted.  At times I wonder if there is a single RedHat employee
> who knows there is people east of Rhode Island in the fabled countries of
> France, United Kingdom and Germany.  :-)

There are a number of us actually. (Most of us don't have a separate /usr
partition though, so we don't notice. ;) )

Why didn't you report this to bugzilla ages ago? Fixing problems you
aren't aware of is an impossible job. I'm fixing this now.

LLaP
bero




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