The one EXTREME test that I witnessed was during a Panasonic ToughBook demo.
The presenter gave a 15 minute speech, pool side at a hotel, about how good
and tough the new Panasonic ToughBook really was. All during the speech, he
would slide a ToughBook off a desk onto the concrete apron at the hotel pool.
The laptop took, probably, 10 or 15 trips to the concrete during the speech.
Most of us in the crowd just about laughed our asses off... No way would this
thing survive. At the end of the speech, he took the laptop off the floor for
the last time, walked over to the pool and gave it a good washing and rinse
in the pool. After the "splash", he opened it up and... it was runnig just
fine... no worse fort wear....
That was something I'll never forget seeing...
On Monday 18 April 2005 10:02 pm, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote:
> You know, you just got me an idea for a website:
> Extreme Benchmarks ;)
>
> We'll, cut the power, set it on fire, throw it out the window and see
> which machines recover and perform best under the circumstances. lol
> ;)
>
> P.S.: Just joking, but it could be a good TV show....
>
> As for the real topic of this thread, seems like no real conclusion.
> Everyone has their loved FS and this discussion got nowhere really
> fast.
>
> So, my final sugestion on this, get one of those RPG dices, with 20
> faces, make a table with all the 20 major FSes and whatever the dice
> lands on, install it. I think you're better off that way.
>
> As a professor of mine used to say, make a decision, it is the right
> or the wrong decision, only time will tell. Not making a decision that
> is the real big mistake.
>
> So pick any fs, and learn it is problems (googleit) and be prepared
> for them. That is the best you can do.
>
> 2005/4/19, Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > On Monday 18 April 2005 01:34 pm, A. R. wrote:
> > > Huh?
> > >
> > > I have never ever had any power failures with my laptops, if the thing
> > > is connected to the power outlet and this one fails, well, the battery
> > > at > least gives me a chance to "gracefully" shut down the computer.
> >
> > One of the methods I used to test ext3 was just that... I removed the
> > battery, plugged the laptop into a local outlet... booted it and started
> > a number of various processes... when things looked real good and busy, I
> > pulled the plug... BAM! Dead.... Plug it back into the outlet and
> > reboot... The filesystem check would take like a second or two and It's
> > back in business.
> >
> > I have yet to get a corrupted ext3 partition, even when doing that
> > non-sense.
> >
> > I tried that exactly once with xfs... Upon boot up it was hosed beyond
> > recovery...
> >
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