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- From: blatter@amiga.physik.unizh.ch (Martin A. Blatter)
- Subject: Re: ufs boot partitions are certain death!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.182230.3822@rzu-news.unizh.ch>
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- Organization: ICU - University of Zurich, Dept. of Computer Science
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:22:30 GMT
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- Michael Saleeba (zik@zikzak.apana.org.au) wrote:
- : rhealey@rogue.digibd.com (Rob Healey) writes:
- : > AmigaUNIX does not like / and /usr being on seperate file systems
- : > so keep / and /usr on the same filesystem. Preferably ufs.
- : Well I can't say I'd recommend ufs for a boot partition. I've been
- : messing with Amiga UNIX for around a year now and I've always had this
- : creeping problem with inodes just randomly being munged. As the system
- : has been getting busier (it's public access) the problem has been
- : getting worse.
- [...]
- : The moral of the story - DON'T USE ufs BOOT PARTITIONS! THEY ARE POISON!
-
- amiga.physik is probably the busiest Amix machine in the world. And
- it has, you guessed it, an *ufs* boot partition. We've yet to see a
- munged inode. The boot partition is probably being fsck'ed 4 times
- a week (due to frequent reboots). Maybe we were just lucky, but I'd
- rather suspect that you had media problems or a broken version of
- the ufs. Do you use Amix 2.1 with all patches applied?
-
- --Martin
-
- --
- Martin A. Blatter - blatter@ifi.unizh.ch, blatter@amiga.physik.unizh.ch
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