On Mittwoch 30 Dezember 2009, Marcus Wanner wrote: > On 12/29/2009 7:17 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 00:08 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> just think a moment of the tons of bug fixes constantly going into > >> ext4. That > >> crap is not stable. Pre-alpha maybe. > > > > People say this from time to time, yet I have been running ext4 on my > > root directory of my laptop since July 2008. The only problem I've had > > since then is one time it would not mount on boot. I merely had to fsck > > it from a live media an then it was ok (nothing lost or currupted). But > > that was a long time ago when it was still ext4dev. And I've had > > numerous crashes and battery depletions on the laptop without incident. > > So the pre-alpha FUD that some people are spreading is either not true > > or I just happen to be the luckiest ext4 user in the world :-). > > For my two cents, a while back I was on ext4 and was trying to get xorg > working. My problem was that the input drivers were not working (because > they had not been recompiled after an update), so once I ran startx, no > keyboard or mouse input was registered. This meant that every time I > tried something which I thought would fix it, I had to hard reset the > system and look at the logs. The only problem was that the logs had the > wrong contents because they had been "written to" but not actually > flushed to the disk, and it took me about 10 hard resets to figure that > out. Even though I was running ext4, I never lost a thing (except the > logs :p). > > For the curious, I eventually got good logs by running shutdown -h 1 in > one tty right before running startx in the other, and that shutdown the > system correctly. > > Marcus >
you could have set up acpid to switch to vt1 when the power button is pressed. This is a nice safeguard against a misbehaving X.
