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Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel



On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 12:29:51PM +1000, Ian Perry wrote:
:I have been running Linux 2.0.36 for the past year on 3 sites and have had
:ext2 go down on each of them after a power failure.

I'd guess the nonbootability was the result of a head crash, and had
nothing to do with the filesystem software.

Why are you running 2.0.36?  I hope you're behind a firewall.

We've had two power failures recently, one building wide, one a single
floor.  AFAIK we had no losses except the drive on an elderly
LispMachine (hardware damage to the drive) in the first, and 2 windows
machines (filesystem corruption) in the second.  This is out of about
400 total machines, of which I'd guess <75 are windows and about 250
are Intel linux. (don't hold me to the numbers, but it's the rough
proportions atleast :)

Not really frightening, even the M$ machines had less than 2%
casualties and one was pretty near collapse before the power failure
so say 1% of Windows workstations 0% of everything else (including the
one lonely and ignored PowerEdge server running NT)

-Jon



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