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From: seg@ingres.com (scott e garfinkle)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: ESIX FFS: what's the verdict?
Message-ID: <1991Feb11.170922.3899@ingres.Ingres.COM>
Date: 11 Feb 91 17:09:22 GMT
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In article <27B16F3A.26B6@tct.uucp> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>So what's a new installer to do?  Is the FFS reliable enough for a
>root partition?  How about a /u partition?  I need to know soon...

Well, if you stick to the Adaptec controller and a Maxtor drive and 
don't use the BSD fs type (255 character filenames), it seems to be pretty
stable for both root and user partitions.  Any other combinations, though,
is pretty deadly.  Oh yeah, make sure you don't run out of inodes on the
fs either -- that causes kernel panics.
	-scott e. garfinkle