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Re: NT vs Linux



Quoth Vadim Smelyansky on Wed, Jun 09, 1999:
> On Sat, 22 May 1999, Isaac Aaron wrote:
> 
> IA>  "Lack of a Journaling file system -
> IA>  file system may not recover after
> IA>  unplanned downtime"
> IA>- Since I don't know of any journaling capabilities
> IA>of the ext2, I suppose they're right.
> 	What rigth? second statement - lie. I tried several times to press
> reset - its recover - beleave me, and NT does not :)

Not always.  Sometimes, when you press reset, Linux filesystem
ends up in a completely broken state.  It doesn't happen much,
though -- happened to me only several times.

> 	Usually I silently press reset on linux box to answer customer
> question: "What happened if power go away?"

Hmm.  Usually I just silently cut my hand with a knife to answer
customer question: "What happened if you are not careful and cut
yourself accidentially?".  Surely, the body will heal itself in
few days, but it's not the desirable situation.

Vadik.

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