Weird boot problem??

[Andrew Mathews]

Ken Moffat wrote:
> David A. Bandel wrote:
> 
>> Move to XFS and say
>> goodbye to fsck forever.
>>
>> Ciao,
>>
>> David A. Bandel
>>
> 
> 
> What about ext3 or reiserfs? I never see fsck. One day during a wind 
> storm I had my computer go down 5 seperate times, each a short power 
> outage, and it rebooted fine, no problems using reiserfs (Libranet Linux).
> 
> Ext3 is a simple convert from ext2, yes? Just add the journal?
> 

One thing people seem to forget is the fact that XFS has a *lot* of user 
space tools that ext3, reiser, jfs and others don't, such as:
xfs_growfs which will resize a partition on the fly
xfs_admin for labeling and renaming
xfs_check for error filesystem and inode correction
xfs_freeze to freeze a filesystem for snapshots
xfs_fsr to reallocate or defragment a filesystem
xfs_bmap to print block mapping for an XFS filesystem
xfs_db to debug an XFS filesystem
xfs_logprint to print the log of an XFS filesystem
xfsdump to back up a filesystem
xfsrestore to restore a filesystem

None of the other journalling filesystems are close to being as 
"full-featured" and rely on external programs to perform these 
functions. I prefer tools native to the filesystem rather than the os or 
third party.

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