Really?

I have a completely different experience: I never managed to completely loose

a filesystem, except by on OpenBSD...
I've been using slackware linux on reiserfs and xfs for many years now, on my

home PCs and company laptop (so, no real production environment) and I'm

happy with both their speed and reliability. I caused many crashes, mostly by

suddenly turning the PCs off in the middle of data transfer and I never lost

a single file.

Recently I decided to give OpenBSD a try, just to taste something different,

and I'm really enthusiastic about it as firewall/proxy/DNS/DHCP server as

well as desktop environment for my laptop. I really love the solidity and

internal coherence of the system, its ease of management and the general

impression of "good, old, solid computing for real men" that most current

linux distributions completely lack (that's why I stick to slackware :-) ).
The only shortcomings I found up to now are FFS fragility with respect to

sudden poweroffs (I've already lost root filesystem twice, beyond fsck

recovery capabilities, so I had to reinstall/restore from scratch), and a

general sluggishness of X11 lacking DRI support.
Probably it all depends on my lack of experience, so maybe my boxes are far

from perfectly tuned up; I hope that spending more and more time tampering

with OpenBSD and following this mailing list, I will eventually get

proficient enough to tune up my systems as well as I got to do with linux :-)

.
Thank you all,

byee
Manuel
--- Claudio Jeker  wrote:

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>

> On the other hand I never lost data on ffs while a crashing linux box

> likes to eat up file systems. If you like to get ext2 speed just mount

> your filesystems async and hope for the best (that's what linux is doing).

>

> --

> :wq Claudio

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