My biggest complaint about RedHat/Mandrake while I was using them was the fact that if I lost power, the disk caching would cause the filesystem to be corrupted, often seriously so. I'd cringe when I booted up again, because inevitably, I'd be prompted to login as root and run fsck myself. Often I'd have to reinstall a bunch of packages, and it didn't help that doing an rpm -Va to verify everything inevitably returned false negatives on package integrity due to broken rpms.
Then I installed Debian. I've had about 5 losses of power since, and each time, the system has come up without a scratch. Minor inode problems easily fixed by fsck without manual control necessary. I noticed the entries in /etc/inittab for powerloss, but the script it's pointing to for me is not installed, so it's not that, although I'd like to know what this /etc/init.d/powerfail script is. So I ask, what aspect of Debian makes it superior in this respect? What's causing the wonderful lack of corruption during power failures? Thanks guys, Mike "To listen to the words of the learned, and to instill into others the lessons of science, is better than religious exercises." -- Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)