Yeah, I've been using Linux almost exclusively since 1994. I've had power outages and a few crashes but I can't remember ever losing data with ext2. I don't r

Yeah, I've been using Linux almost exclusively since 1994. I've had power outages and a few crashes but I can't remember ever losing data with ext2. I don't remember losing a lot of data in DOS/Win3.1 but I rarely used it because it crashed so much. I did have a lot of keyboard and X11 lockups in the 1990's but after a year I got a dumb terminal for $20 so someone could still check email, read Usenet, etc. while the main display was in use. If the main keyboard or X11 server locked up I could use the terminal to sync the filesystem and reboot the machine cleanly. I remember doing that quite a bit when playing full screen games or anything with SVGAlib