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i have never had a problem with the filesystems.
by anonymous_union 3y ago
i have never had a problem with the filesystems.
- matrix12 3y agoYou've never had to fsck a 10TB spinning disk then...
- djoletina 3y ago[flagged]
- hotnfresh 3y agoIs spinning rust esoteric now? Is fsck esoteric? If so, when did that happen?
- timeinput 3y agoIn 20 years of running Linux on spinning rust I've not had to fsck. *Knocks on wood*. My first Linux FS was ext3. Correction: I realized I've run it in vain attempts to recover SD cards. It always failed.
- anyfoo 3y agoLook, I'm a big fan of OpenBSD (and use it myself), but journaling filesystems are many decades old at this point, and they have very clear advantages. One is not to have to sit through an excruciatingly long fsck after a power outage, with a real chance to lose data. This is not an esoteric scenario. OpenBSD will be better once it adopted a journaling filesystem, until then nobody claimed it's "bullshit".
- fodkodrasz 3y agoGood for you. I had. On OpenBSD 6.x, after power outage/intel drm kernel freeze I had catastrophic data losses. This is not acceptable for me on a desktop/workstation OS. Linux FS stability is better since the 2.4 era in my experience.
- anyfoo 3y agoI wasn't quite as bad for me, but every once in a while, after a power outage (or the very, very rare kernel panic), I need to get out the laptop and the serial cable to manually fsck my headless server box, because the automatic fsck wouldn't continue on its own. It's pretty annoying, to say the least. But OpenBSD is such a fantastic system overall, I keep using it, and just wait for them to adopt a journaling filesystem. (And have good backups.)
- fodkodrasz 3y agoI really liked the trunk (4) virtual network device, and lots of small stuff, and the barebones experience had its own appeal. Now that softdeps is disabled and the vfs getting an overhaul I might try it again... in a few years.