>>>>> "Emil" == Emil Pedersen <emilp@update.uu.se> writes:
Emil> MH wrote:
>> >>>>> "Craig" == Craig Dickson <crdic@yahoo.com> writes:
>>
>>
Craig> But quite stable at this point. I've been running ext3 on
Craig> all my fs's for several months, and have never seen a
Craig> problem that resulted from ext3 itself.
>>
>>
>> *My* experience
>>
>> Ext3 nearly toasted my ide-hd and "tidied up" about every
>> second directory on the /var partition on a __smp__ machine ...
>>
Emil> Would you please explain this? "toasted my ide-hd" sounds
Emil> to me like it physically damaged your drive, and that it
Emil> would not have done this if the drive had been scsi. To me
Emil> that's silly at best, so I assume that was not what you
Emil> ment.
1) Normally I know what I mean, and I'm trying to express myself
(though English isn't my native language as it isn't yours) ...
So mind your wording, thanks.
2) Physically (intermittently) non-functional is a correct term for
what happened. The hd (and it was a ide-drive and it's perfectly
possible that this is of some importance for the failure) hung like a
record player would hang if it hangs. No chance to enter with fsck
as the hd would enter in the same ill-tempered-record-player-state.
I was going to buy a new hd, but since it was Sunday I reformatted
the partition and gave reiser a shot. This was 2 months ago.
So, as you noted this is not a kind of fs-flamewar, because I want a
fs's existence to pass unnoticed...
And I'm not calling you silly, because I don't like to call people
silly even if they meet this condition, but I don't know you...
Regards,
MH
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