From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NPzIn-0005Ur-6T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:13:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BEE28E08C0; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:13:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eastrmmtao106.cox.net (eastrmmtao106.cox.net [68.230.240.48]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84E24E08C0 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:13:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eastrmimpo01.cox.net ([68.1.16.119]) by eastrmmtao106.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.00.01.00 201-2244-105-20090324) with ESMTP id <20091230141314.YEAG1916.eastrmmtao106.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> for ; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:13:14 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.101] ([68.226.67.252]) by eastrmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id PSDC1d00P5Sa0uU02SDCkX; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:13:13 -0500 X-VR-Score: -100.00 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=Q0/QIhtFGXcPwKBXdiAKH6RPO1IrUZ7nWfC2VwHFyto= c=1 sm=1 a=w8vW1BtY9Kn2S3BlLC7G9Q==:17 a=5pu6Yw3zTizyZRpP9_8A:9 a=IR3zF_-axt3Msqiob31gxfnuAysA:4 a=w8vW1BtY9Kn2S3BlLC7G9Q==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Message-ID: <4B3B5FCD.8000502@cox.net> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:12:29 -0500 From: Marcus Wanner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem References: <200912291404.15508.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <4B3A8A4A.6010606@xunil.at> <200912300009.00280.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <1262132249.136326.8.camel@centar> In-Reply-To: <1262132249.136326.8.camel@centar> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7c5d59a6-0386-4406-805a-7feefb5d351f X-Archives-Hash: d3741ab410207c4de53a5d843b576141 On 12/29/2009 7:17 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 00:08 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> just think a moment of the tons of bug fixes constantly going into >> ext4. That >> crap is not stable. Pre-alpha maybe. >> > People say this from time to time, yet I have been running ext4 on my > root directory of my laptop since July 2008. The only problem I've had > since then is one time it would not mount on boot. I merely had to fsck > it from a live media an then it was ok (nothing lost or currupted). But > that was a long time ago when it was still ext4dev. And I've had > numerous crashes and battery depletions on the laptop without incident. > So the pre-alpha FUD that some people are spreading is either not true > or I just happen to be the luckiest ext4 user in the world :-). > For my two cents, a while back I was on ext4 and was trying to get xorg working. My problem was that the input drivers were not working (because they had not been recompiled after an update), so once I ran startx, no keyboard or mouse input was registered. This meant that every time I tried something which I thought would fix it, I had to hard reset the system and look at the logs. The only problem was that the logs had the wrong contents because they had been "written to" but not actually flushed to the disk, and it took me about 10 hard resets to figure that out. Even though I was running ext4, I never lost a thing (except the logs :p). For the curious, I eventually got good logs by running shutdown -h 1 in one tty right before running startx in the other, and that shutdown the system correctly. Marcus