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- From: rhealey@rogue.digibd.com (Rob Healey)
- Subject: Re: ufs boot partitions are certain death!
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- References: <Bradb.0nhy@nesbbx.rain.COM> <C14Hr8.CC8@gw.digibd.com> <1jm1btINN356@zikzak.apana.org.au> <C1ABpE.2rA@gw.digibd.com> <1k32hsINNmss@zikzak.apana.org.au>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:30:38 GMT
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- In article <1k32hsINNmss@zikzak.apana.org.au>, zik@zikzak.apana.org.au (Michael Saleeba) writes:
- |> rhealey@rogue.digibd.com (Rob Healey) writes:
- |> > ufs boot partitions are only poison on < 2.1, for 2.1 AmigaUNIX it is
- |> > the only way to go.
- |>
- |> Interestingly, this was running Amiga UNIX 2.1. And somewhat less
- |> interestingly IT JUST DID IT AGAIN! Under patch level 2a as well!
- |> Argh! More random files disappearing, more fun with lost+found :-(
- |>
- Offhand I'd say the problem is somewhere in hardware or else the
- drive isn't jumped properly, i.e. no sync negotiation and such.
-
- I know of a dozen 2.1 sites that regularly beat the crap out of the
- ufs file system and all have ufs for the root partition. Most
- have heavy NFS use as well.
-
- -Rob
-