Marco Peereboom wrote:

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> If you like losing data ext3 and reiserfs work just fine.  I manage to

> lose Linux installations pretty often by doing crazy things like

> rebooting.

>

> On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 03:41:05PM +0100, RedShift wrote:

>> Claudio Jeker wrote:

>>> On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 01:48:44PM +0100, Karel Kulhavy wrote:

>>>> On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 12:36:00PM -0500, R. Fumione wrote:

>>>>> Hello,

>>>>>

>>>>> I am using OpenBSD on server since few years now, and I am very happy

>>>>> with it's easy maintenance and it's stability. I want to try on

>>>>> desktop, and I am having trouble.

>>>>>

>>>>> Everything is much slower than existing Linux system. For example,

>>>>> Firefox takes 3-5 seconds to start on Linux but ~10 seconds on

>>>>> OpenBSD on same machine!

>>>> I have the same problem. The FFS doesn't seem to be as fast as ext2.

>>>>

>>> 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).

>>>

>> That's what transactional filesystems like ext3 and reiserfs are for. I

>> can highly recommend reiserfs.

>>

>> Glenn

>>

> 

Do you have some evidence to back up your pretty bold statement?