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- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Path: sparky!uunet!gator!rde!ksmith!keith
- From: keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith)
- Subject: Re: Packaging Linux
- Organization: Keith's Computer, Hope Mills, NC
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 15:36:19 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.153619.2707@ksmith.uucp>
- References: <17612@mindlink.bc.ca> <1992Nov20.160444.16116@scifi.uucp>
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- In article <1992Nov20.160444.16116@scifi.uucp> njs@scifi.uucp (Nicholas J. Simicich) writes:
- [...]
- >I personally think that another essential for mass-usage is going to
- >be a filesystem that doesn't require sync() or fsck. This isn't an
- >impossible task, and yes, there is a performance hit, but I don't
- >think you are going to sell a system to the masses that they can't
- >turn off whenever they want to.
-
- Bull, Plenty of folks I know *STILL* run "park" before they shut off
- their machines, because someone told them to long, long, ago, Even
- though their drives autopark.
-
- The trick is a simple command (like halt) and Automagic fsck on boot if
- there was a bad shutdown. Also avoid wierd messages during fsck, a
- simple:
-
- Halt was not run, checking hard disk for errors.
-
- with
-
- Correcting file blah.
- Fixing directory bleh.
-
- etc.
-
- Make the other messages available with a flag (-old or -v or something).
- Let's face it, joe user AIN't gonna be able to make a reconnect
- decsision anyway. Even dos does similar stuff with chkdsk /f. There
- really is NOT a lot of difference, and I've had a corrupt dos
- filesystem before too.
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