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Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 00:27:41 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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Subject: journaling and devel [was Re: Development Setups]
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Hi!

> > I was thinking of starting with a modern machine for developing/
> > compiling on,  and then older machine(s) for testing.  This way I
> > would not risk losing data  if I oops or somesuch. 
> 
> With journalling filesystems you needn't worry _too_ much about losing 
> data; depending of course on what you're hacking on. Having two separate 
> boxen for development and testing is mostly valuable because you can keep 
> working when you break it - it doesn't take your entire desktop environment 
> down with it.

I disagree.. With journal filesystem, when something is silently corrupting
your disk, you'll never know. With ext2, you sometimes sync & reset to make
sure your disks are still healthy. I would not recommend journaling on 
experimental boxes.
								Pavel
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