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Re: ReiserFS vs XFS or JFS?



 On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 15:34 -0400, Scott R. Ehrlich wrote: 
> One other reason - as I encourage people to shut down instead of 
> suspend/sleep, is that if they are in a networked environment, the machine 
> holds network state from location x to location y.  I then get called in 
> to hear their laptop cannot "talk" on the network, only to find its 
> network info was from where they were last at (home vs office, hotel vs 
> home, etc). 
> 
> I then advise them they should shutdown and reboot, which will purge their 
> network info and give the system a fresh start the next time it is powered 
> on... for most TCP/IP situations... except, at times, for those static 
> addresses... 


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