Re: [MiNT] Stability of mint ext2fs

[Mario Becroft <mb@tos.pl.net>]

On Tue, 18 May 1999, John Blakeley wrote:

> I have trashed /home twice, since ext2's latest incarnation, probably due
> to unclean system power-downs with AES4.1 running. I have to say though,
> that I did manage to retrieve *_every_single_file_* using fsck.ext2.

I have never had an unrecoverable error on a minix filesystem, in fact I
have never had anything worse happen than a few benign errors. It has
never crashed and become in an unusable state after using it for several
years. But maybe I am just rather lucky in this regard.

> The only caveat I have found, is that because we have no way of cleanly
> unmounting any filesystem, running fsck as per the script in Frank's

When ever I turn off the computer (which is usually at least once every
week or two) I always use halt or reboot. Doesn't this cleanly unmount the
filesystems?

> latest kernel release, is imperative. I would say that a third of the
> time, it does perform some (v. small) filesystem modifications. I don't do

This does not sound very good to me - after using minix and only very
rarely getting any errors at all - and even then they have never been
serious. Is it really the expected behaviour that errors will regularly
occur?

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