In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Anders Widman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The others want to make Linux a viable option for "normal" users and >want Linux to be able to replace Windows or Mac OS. The only way I see >that happen is if Linux starts to get more userfriendly and safe.
Last time I checked, Windows and Mac OS come to a near total halt when they see a disk error while doing a write on non-removable media, unless the application goes to extraordinary lengths to handle the error itself. Frankly, I used to mount my ext3 filesystems on servers with 'errors=panic', causing a reboot at the very first sign of trouble (past tense as I now use reiserfs which doesn't like that option ;-). The sooner the server goes out of production and starts running fsck, the sooner it will finish running fsck and come back into production (or, in the worst case, the sooner an admin person will start pulling out backup tapes and ordering replacement disks). -- Zygo Blaxell (Laptop) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG = D13D 6651 F446 9787 600B AD1E CCF3 6F93 2823 44AD
