From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JMOIz-00048s-GP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:57:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C55BE073C; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 13:57:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from QMTA08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.80]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82917E073C for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 13:57:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from OMTA12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.44]) by QMTA08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id lnqB1Y0090x6nqcA80BU00; Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:57:37 +0000 Received: from [67.189.95.250] ([67.189.95.250]) by OMTA12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id lpxa1Y0085Q77KX8Y00000; Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:57:40 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=nJOXsBhvf7UA:10 a=hoJHrPPOuoZDDtnYr50A:9 a=IMZoUXHblvLT7RcYkii6fJoJmj0A:4 a=t4_G8ilOLH4A:10 a=sTxQBSUFI-gA:10 Message-ID: <47A86B43.2060804@cesmail.net> Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:57:23 -0800 From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071227) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] Re: Free-standing Portage / Recent stage3 tarballs / Beta References: <1202013069.18679.1234757825@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1202196949.27192.1235119087@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <1202196949.27192.1235119087@webmail.messagingengine.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: bde0780d-01a2-42e5-a0d5-14c11c53a43b X-Archives-Hash: 996b2aea5c72bea2638fc56e4a0e288d davecode@nospammail.net wrote: >> run ~arch with XFS on a desktop system that doesn't have a UPS > > Guilty as charged. Running Debian unstable on XFS for years, through > dozens of storm blackouts, and zero data loss. Ext3 lost plenty of data > before we gave up on it. Have no intention of using ext4, either. Ah ... I've been running (Gentoo) reiser3 on my workstation here. I never thought to try XFS or JFS, but I too have given up on ext3 (ecause it's slow). reiser3 can be slow on writing, though. -- gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org mailing list