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D'oh! moments



I'm confused by your response.  Why was ext3 invented? 

I believe Miah's point is that the risk of corrupting the disks and
losing months of work is the problem.  I seriously doubt that the amount
of time fsck runs is at issue here.... 

ccb at acm.org wrote:
> 
> > Yes,
> > 
> > Its a risk you don't want to take on your fileserver that has 120gigs of mp
> 3's that has taken you months to download and organise.
> > 
> > -miah
> 
> This is why ext3 was invented.  Just hit reset and you'll be on the
> air in notime.
> 
> ccb
> 
> 
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