OT: redhat

[Fairlight]

>From inside the gravity well of a singularity, Bill Campbell shouted:
> 
> When I installed my FreeBSD system here, I looked at the default sizes that
> came up with an automatic allocation, and doubled them all.
> 
> Every couple of years it seems that I have to double the amount of space I
> allocate for the ``/'' file system on Linux systems.

Yeah, I know what you mean.  When I spoke of my X11R6 stuff...actually, at
the time, it was R5.  :)  I just remembered...the time I had to do that was
on Arcadia Mk1 when I was upgrading everything manually from a Slackware
1.0 installation all the way through until I jumped ship to RH 4.1.  Let's
just say that my original system outgrew its original partitioning scheme
despite the best of planning.  Then again, I keep my systems around a lot
longer than many people.

> As a rule, if a file system gets nuked, it's ``/'', and I really like to
> have all my critical data in another file system.  I've also found that
> when a journaling file system goes bad, it goes *REALLY* bad.

A case for good backups.  :)  I suppose it's good to know the facts, even
if they're not particularly reassuring.  Thanks for the heads-up.  I can't
wait for ReiserFS to dive.  *tries -really- hard to look enthusiastic*

My biggest disappointment so far is Reiser's lack of implementation of the
immutable bit.  I'd pay for that feature right about now.  Unfortunately,
only ext2 and ext3 actually support it, AFAICT.  If you use chattr to set
it, it will show up as set, but you can still do whatever you like.  The
apparent claim for not supporting it is that it's not a POSIX standard.
Like that's ever stopped someone.  You'd think they'd second-guess this
design decision, given FBSD's support for such a mechanism at the very
least.

But hey, if that's the most ReiserFS disappoints me, I'll count myself
fortunate.  I dunno--people swore they had nightmares with ext2, and in all
the years I used it, on all the systems in which I saw it deployed, I only
saw a few screenfuls of inodes lost, and it was 99.9% indicative of incipient
hardware failure.  As someone said to me when the journalling filesystems
(ext3 and ReiserFS) were really on the rise, "Yes, it performs really
admirably for a 1994 vintage filesystem."

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