Re: [Sheflug] mandrake7.2

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.org.uk>]

> well.... it came as part of the install routine for a mandrake7.2 system
> in configures just as easy as ext2 except you can only use it on partitions 
> bigger than 50Mb (i think thats the correct figure)

Thats right.

> no more forced checks on bootup and no corrupt data so far (it's early days )
> i'm not experianced enough to recomend or condem the conversion of a running 
> system but i have read that it is relatively straight forward for the more 
> experianced user......
> 

Well, even with the nVidia drivers locking X, forcing a reset, and me
manually pressing it just to see what happens (on my main machine. I'm a
glutton for punishment!), I have yet to see a corrupt file. I even did it
while writing a file (a largeish tar) and the file was simply truncated to
the length it was before the reset. All already compressed files could be
retrieved without problem!

However, a fauly HDD (bad blocks, now in the bin) caused a few
problems. The writes caused some data loss. So, I rebooted to the rescue
disk, and ran the check program, with instruction to rebuild from the
transaction log. This took about 10 minutes, and all I lost was 10 lines
from a document I was writing. It even recreated the destroyed file. This
was about three months ago, so it was early days. A good sign!

Cheers,

Craig

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