On 10-11-10 12:10 PM, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
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> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>  wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Alexey Dobriyan<adobriyan@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Those of us, who did (without UPS), will never do it again.

I've used ext2 and ext3 extensively on all of the boxes here,
every since each first became available.   I developed Linux IDE,
the first IDE DMA, lots of custom storage drivers, and more recently
worked on libata drivers.  This meant a LOT of sudden and catastrophic
system failures, as the bugs and other kinks were worked on.

Never lost a nibble.  Totally, utterly reliable stuff for everyday use.
*WITH* the write-caches all enabled on all of the drives, too.

Sure, sudden power-failures could have a better chance of corrupting data,
but those are really rare, and the few that have happened were again non-events 
here.

That's the difference between theory and practice.

Cheers
-ml
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