Re: Win32 port powerfail testing

On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 12:27:31AM -0600, Greg Copeland wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 14:36, Dave Page wrote:
> >
> > I intend to run the tests on a Dual PIII 1GHz box, with 1Gb of Non-ECC
> > RAM and a 20Gb (iirc) IDE disk. I will run on Windows 2000 Server with
> > an NTFS filesystem, and again on Slackware Linux 8 with either ext3 or
> > reiserfs (which is preferred?).
> >
>
> Please go with XFS or ext3. There are a number of blessed and horror
> stories which still float around about reiserfs (recent and old; even
> though I've never lost data with it -- using it now even).
>
> Might be worth testing FAT32 on NT as well. Even if we don't advocate
> it's use, it may not hurt to at least get an understanding of what one
> might reasonably expect from it. I'm betting there are people just
> waiting to run with FAT32 in the Win32 world. ;)

You'd better go with NTFS. There are a number of blessed and horror
stories which still float around about FAT32 (recent and old; even though
I've never lost data with it -- using it now even now.

Might be worth testing reiserfs on Linux as well. Even if we don't
advocate it's use, it may not hurt to at least get an understanding of
what one my reasonbly expect from it. I'm better there are people
just waiting to run with reiserfs in the Linux world. ;)

Regards, and tongue firmly in cheek,

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