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Re:OpenBSD 7.4 Released by matrix12 on Monday October 16, 2023 @01:31PM (#37903259)
You've never had to fsck a 10TB spinning disk then...
Re:OpenBSD 7.4 Released by djoletina on Monday October 16, 2023 @02:17PM (#37903875)
> You’ve never had to do this esoteric thing so it means this OS is bullshit
Re:OpenBSD 7.4 Released by hotnfresh on Monday October 16, 2023 @02:29PM (#37904038)
Is spinning rust esoteric now? Is fsck esoteric? If so, when did that happen?
Re:OpenBSD 7.4 Released by timeinput on Monday October 16, 2023 @04:21PM (#37905967)
In 20 years of running Linux on spinning rust I've not had to fsck. *Knocks on wood*. My first Linux FS was ext3.

Correction: I realized I've run it in vain attempts to recover SD cards. It always failed.

Re:OpenBSD 7.4 Released by anyfoo on Monday October 16, 2023 @02:52PM (#37904381)
Look, I'm a big fan of OpenBSD (and use it myself), but journaling filesystems are many decades old at this point, and they have very clear advantages. One is not to have to sit through an excruciatingly long fsck after a power outage, with a real chance to lose data. This is not an esoteric scenario.

OpenBSD will be better once it adopted a journaling filesystem, until then nobody claimed it's "bullshit".