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Re: Dokan – User Mode File Systems on Windows

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Post by sdegutis »

baldfat wrote: post #24
Demiurge wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your experience could be fact, but in about 10 years of using MacBooks for work, it has effected me about 2 times, yet I had way more issues with sound/graphics/sleep/projection/skype/internationalization on the Linux distros I have tried. I don't mean to start a flame war, but there is probably a reason you see MacBooks at linux conferences, and FS bugs are not a huge factor.

> sound/graphics/sleep/projection/skype/internationalization on the Linux distros Paper Cuts HFS+ problems are a disaster. I lost 2 10 hour days of video edits and work and my backup were also garbage. > FS bugs are not a huge factor You know you are not seeing things clearly when you say statements like that.

You lost a few hours of work because of Apple's probably-legitimately terrible filesystem. I lost days and days and days of work trying to configure Linux to just act sane and normal and do the right thing with my hardware. And I lost years and years of our only backups of family photos. We are missing all photos of our eldest son from birth until age 4 or 5, or our eldest daughter until probably 2 years old. I take some blame for trying to use Linux when I should have accepted the fact that it's only to be touched by gods-among-men, and this was back in 2007 or so. But Apple has not failed me nearly as badly as Linux has.

Re: Dokan – User Mode File Systems on Windows

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Post by CuriousCosmic »

sdegutis wrote: post #31
baldfat wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> sound/graphics/sleep/projection/skype/internationalization on the Linux distros Paper Cuts HFS+ problems are a disaster. I lost 2 10 hour days of video edits and work and my backup were also garbage. > FS bugs are not a huge factor You know you are not seeing things clearly when you say statements like that.

You lost a few hours of work because of Apple's probably-legitimately terrible filesystem. I lost days and days and days of work trying to configure Linux to just act sane and normal and do the right thing with my hardware. And I lost years and years of our only backups of family photos. We are missing all photos of our eldest son from birth until age 4 or 5, or our eldest daughter until probably 2 years old. I take…

Well, not trying to be snide but your first problem is that you only had one backup of irreplaceable information. Storage is cheap enough nowadays that just about every computer should have some form of raid 1 or alternatively a NAS with raid 1 along with at least 1 or 2 offline backups.

$200 for 4 hard drives and some hardware in exchange for a near guarantee that data is never lost is worthwhile in my opinion.

Hell, for the more frugal there is an excess of cloud storage options out there that will be near impenetrable vaults for data. (that's not sensitive at least)

Basically, while the faults that both OS X and Linux have are definitely profound and problematic, they can be almost entirely avoided with nearly any data replication system, even just syncing to the cloud.

Re: Dokan – User Mode File Systems on Windows

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Post by baldfat »

CuriousCosmic wrote: post #32
sdegutis wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You lost a few hours of work because of Apple's probably-legitimately terrible filesystem. I lost days and days and days of work trying to configure Linux to just act sane and normal and do the right thing with my hardware. And I lost years and years of our only backups of family photos. We are missing all photos of our eldest son from birth until age 4 or 5, or our eldest daughter until probably 2 years old. I take…

Well, not trying to be snide but your first problem is that you only had one backup of irreplaceable information. Storage is cheap enough nowadays that just about every computer should have some form of raid 1 or alternatively a NAS with raid 1 along with at least 1 or 2 offline backups. $200 for 4 hard drives and some hardware in exchange for a near guarantee that data is never lost is worthwhile in my opinion. Hell…

This happened over 10 years ago. I had three drives one with the archives one with the working files and one of the edits (Edits failed me). I had it in double redundancy backup and a on a second NAS. I even at the time copied to DVD. The problem was it happened right away but since my work was in memory it wasn't something I would see till the third day of pulling everything together for the final cut I found out that file system had failed.
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