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Re: ReiserFS vs XFS or JFS?



 On Sat, 3 May 2008, Jarod Wilson wrote: 

> On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 15:34 -0400, Scott R. Ehrlich wrote: 
>> One other reason - as I encourage people to shut down instead of 
>> suspend/sleep, is that if they are in a networked environment, the machine 
>> holds network state from location x to location y.  I then get called in 
>> to hear their laptop cannot "talk" on the network, only to find its 
>> network info was from where they were last at (home vs office, hotel vs 
>> home, etc). 
>> 
>> I then advise them they should shutdown and reboot, which will purge their 
>> network info and give the system a fresh start the next time it is powered 
>> on... for most TCP/IP situations... except, at times, for those static 
>> addresses... 
> 
> I take it you're not that familiar with NetworkManager then... :) 
> 
> I suspend and resume all the time with my laptop, moving from a wired 
> connection at the office to wireless in conference rooms, back to wired, 
> then home and back onto wireless. Works a treat. 


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