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From: geoff@ugc.uucp (Geoff Coleman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX vs standard unix
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.050117.11361@ugc.uucp>
Date: 5 Jun 91 05:01:17 GMT
References: <11640@ncar.ucar.edu> <1991Jun4.163505.29244@cs.utk.edu> <30577@hydra.gatech.EDU>
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In article <30577@hydra.gatech.EDU> glenns@eas.gatech.edu writes:
>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?

	Yes isn't that a lot of fun. And no after the third or fourth
time around I haven't found a quicker way.
	
>
>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.... 

	And just hope you don't. On a couple of occasions I've had fsck 
on our 6000 totally trash a file system. 

	I'm still waiting for System V release 4 for the 6000.

Geoff Coleman