From: Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] Cannot
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2020 20:28:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <681273F2-DEEF-4E4D-9EC3-92340268D4F4@stanleylieber.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <620E2EA08AD1A61230D4F7192EA82927@eigenstate.org>
On December 2, 2020 8:02:00 PM EST, ori@eigenstate.org wrote:
>> Alternatively, if not preferably (to hjfs), cwfs can be configured
>> without a dump partition. Here's how:
>>
>> http://docs.a-b.xyz/cwfs.html
>>
>> How do people feel about making this an option in the installer?
>>
>
>Uneasy, but not a hard 'no'. Having dumps has saved my ass so many
>times that I don't really want to present a default install option
>that gets rid of them. Especially since CWFS isn't crash-safe, so
>pulling the plug without a dump leaves you without a way to recover.
>
>It's good to have it documented, but putting it as an option in the
>install media suggests to me that it's a recommended configuration,
>and it's one that I'd really want people to think hard about.
let me present you with my counter-scenario:
9front.org worm fills up before i notice it happened (this actually happened at least three times, over the years, which is why we now run hjfs without taking a dump).
there's no recourse. you're just futzed.
sl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-03 1:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-01 8:19 [9front] Cannot install 9front-8013.d9e940a768d1.amd64.iso due to network issues Vladimir Nikishkin
2020-12-02 0:03 ` Josuah Demangeon
2020-12-02 4:03 ` Vladimir Nikishkin
2020-12-02 4:40 ` ori
2020-12-02 5:45 ` Vladimir Nikishkin
2020-12-02 16:46 ` ori
2020-12-02 17:12 ` Stanley Lieber
2020-12-02 18:07 ` ori
2020-12-02 19:03 ` Stanley Lieber
2020-12-03 0:35 ` kvik
2020-12-03 0:52 ` Stanley Lieber
2020-12-03 1:02 ` [9front] Cannot ori
2020-12-03 1:28 ` Stanley Lieber [this message]
2020-12-03 1:53 ` ori
2020-12-03 2:54 ` Xiao-Yong Jin
2020-12-03 3:11 ` Stanley Lieber
2020-12-03 3:22 ` Alex Musolino
2020-12-03 3:35 ` kvik
2020-12-03 16:07 ` kvik
2020-12-03 16:36 ` Stuart Morrow
2020-12-04 0:39 ` Alex Musolino
2020-12-02 7:15 ` [9front] Cannot install 9front-8013.d9e940a768d1.amd64.iso due to network issues Iruatã Souza
2020-12-02 16:44 ` ori
2020-12-03 18:02 ` Stuart Morrow
2020-12-03 18:18 ` hiro
2020-12-03 18:32 ` Stuart Morrow
2020-12-03 18:46 ` hiro
2020-12-03 18:53 ` Stuart Morrow
2020-12-03 19:37 ` hiro
2020-12-06 3:52 ` sl
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