Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!gatech!prism!gs26 From: gs26@prism.gatech.EDU (Glenn R. Stone) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: AIX vs standard unix Message-ID: <30577@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: 4 Jun 91 17:06:59 GMT References: <1991Jun3.173646.25682@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <11640@ncar.ucar.edu> <1991Jun4.163505.29244@cs.utk.edu> Reply-To: glenns@eas.gatech.edu Organization: Dead Poets Society Lines: 23 In <1991Jun4.163505.29244@cs.utk.edu> de5@ornl.gov (Dave Sill) writes: >In article <11640@ncar.ucar.edu>, pack@acd.uucp (Daniel Packman) writes: >> >>I'd take the journaled file system over sys V or berekely any day. >How about the day one of your disks crashes? Like, maybe the one >that's got pieces of /, /usr, /u, etc. on it, and instead of restoring >one drive's worth of stuff, you have to restore everything? You can tell it which drive to put things on.... Granted that it takes installing the system and then immediately reloading it, but c'est la guerre.... Packman is right, though, I've pushed the Big Yellow Button on all of my '6000's on multiple occasions each; only once have I _ever_ heard a squeaky out of fsck.... it just doesn't lose stuff. Besides, I back up by logical partition, not by physical; it's not going to matter to me, anyway. I'd much rather take the extra time on the one-in-a-million head crash than take double the time out of my day every time one of my scientists 888's his machine with too many windows..... -- Glenn R. Stone glenns@eas.gatech.edu