My main computer is Void Linux. If I had to restore from backup every time the disks became mildly messed up, all my time would be spent backing up and restoring.
I remember back in the 90's and early 00's before journalling every system crash was grounds for an ulcer. I didn't know that the main OpenBSD filesystem didn't journal. SteveT Ronan Viel said on Tue, 5 Sep 2023 16:37:19 +0200 >What about backup? >tar is ready to use. > >Ronan > >> Le 5 sept. 2023 à 16:12, John Holland <johnbholl...@icloud.com> a >> écrit : >> >> I just had a kernel panic when reloading a firefox tab pointed at >> facebook. After restarting, all the filesystems had errors but /home >> was particularly bad and caused the boot to stop and prompt if I >> wanted to enter a root shell. >> >> >> I eventually got fsck to mark the /home filesystem clean but it >> found >4000 lost files that it moved to lost&found. I am not so >> experienced with this, running "file" on a few of them shows that >> they may be intact files but they have numeric names now. >> >> >> I've really been enjoying OpenBSD but I think it could really use a >> journaled filesystem. I believe I have the correct options in fstab >> for the best results: >> >> 1f08fbc2b303f0ef.k /home ffs rw,softdep,noatime,nodev,nosuid 1 2 >> >> >> I was just thinking how much I was enjoying OpenBSD compared to some >> others when this happened. >> >> >> OpenZFS? License issues? Hammer? Anything? >> >
