In epistula a Manuel Ravasio  die horaque Mon,

19 Mar 2007 07:47:46 -0700 (PDT):
> Really?

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> 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

interestingly, i just had an experience at a customer's site i want to

share in this respect:
they use *cough* GNU/Linux *cough*, RHEL. and XFS. XFS is pretty cool.

however, they lost data. but it was not only about 'losing' data, it

was about a hidden data loss. some data was lost, some not. some had

weird ctime, some not. this is surely thanks to the most perfect

implementation of an *opened* FS (here: XFS) by the GNU/Linux guys.

pretty well done. what happened? a server had a backplane crash, an

externally mounted XFS volume was shut down 'unclean'. although it was

not that big (<1TByte), the desaster happened.
in more than ten years of using IRIX (and thusly, XFS) i never lost one

single sucking file.
:)