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Re: [News] In Praise of X Server in GNU/Linux

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Homer
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 wrote
on Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:25:23 +0100
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> Verily I say unto thee, that JEDIDIAH spake thusly:
>> On 2008-10-13, Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:51:27 +0100, Homer wrote:
>
>>>> When any of those five binary blobs called "The Registry" are 
>>>> damaged then you're screwed, because they're the only repository 
>>>> for all your configurations
>>> 
>>> You might want to bring yourself up to this century.  I've never 
>>> even *HEARD* of a registry corruption since XP SP1, some 6 years 
>>> ago, other than
>
> Did SP1 make XP immune to power cuts, Ewik?

The question might very well be registry recovery in that case.
I'll admit to some curiosity.

Linux for its part is not immune to powercuts either; one
hopes that the journaling is sufficiently robust in ext3,
reiserfs, and jfs such that an interrupted disk transaction
can be recovered up to a certain point during filesystem
consistency checks.

And there's always the possibility of a battery backup, if
one wishes such.  In laptops, that's almost trivial (though
if the battery runs out there's not a lot one can do ;-) ).
On desktops, one might purchase additional hardware, which
is basically a battery+charger unit.

I would think that Linux journaling has been tested to death,
actually, and of course one can attempt code review, since
the code is readily available.

Do we have that option in Windows? :-)

>
>> ...then mebbe you should get out more often and stop pretending you 
>> know something about 3D programming.
>
> Or filesystems, even.
>

I'll admit to some concerns about reiserfs, mostly because
of lack of atomicity (as yttrx pointed out).  I use ext3
on this laptop.

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