[geeks] Eeeek

[Ryn]

Thanks god for journaled file systems. I remember once running FSCK on a 400GB
unjournaled UFS file system. GAK!


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kris Kirby" <kris at catonic.net>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Cc: "Kurt Huhn" <kurt at k-huhn.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 7:52 PM
Subject: Re: [geeks] Eeeek


> On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Sridhar the POWERful wrote:
> > Especially if $clueless_moron were to reboot my mainframe, I'd be forced
> > to go medieval on their ass.  Bringing a mainframe up with a full set of
> > power-on tests takes about half an hour.
>
> One of my least favorite moments in computing was when one of my two "big"
> PCs would go down -- one had 66 GB of IDE disk (non-RAID config) and the
> other has 30GB of RAID5 IDE.
>
> fsck takes quite a while on those filesystems; moreso on the 66GB one
> because it had more delta than the other one.
>
> --
> Kris Kirby, KE4AHR          | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said.
> <kris at nospam.catonic.net>   | IM: KrisBSD | HSV, AL.
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