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From: othman@oasys.pc.my (Othman Ahmad)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD?
Message-ID: <FRwaNc2w165w@oasys.pc.my>
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 94 17:24:26 +800
References: <2seo29$5c5@vishnu.jussieu.fr>
Organization: Telekom Malaysia, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
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card@masi.ibp.fr (Remy CARD) writes:
>
> I'm sure that the first ALPHA release of FFS in BSD used to be as
> unreliable as my ext2fs first versions :-). FFS is older than ext2fs and has
The unreliablity may not be due to FFS but other modules such as VM.
>
> I agree. Linux and *BSD should benefit from each other. While I have
> chosen to write ext2fs instead of porting FFS to Linux (there were some
> technical problems because Linux's and *BSD's VFS are quite different and the
> legal status of BSD source was unclear at this time), I have often refered to
> FFS as a source of inspiration (OK, some ideas in ext2fs are my own and some
> others originated from other Linux hackers, but the two filesystems have lots
> of things in common).
The unique thing about BSD FFS(Fast File System) is the presense of 2 block
sizes. A small chunk size but large block sizes. 16K block size with chunk
size of 1 K is the default.
Has this been implemented under ext2fs? From benchmark tests, it is very
clear that linux FS a year ago still has not implemented it.
SABAH is HEAVEN. Beautiful islands, mountains and jungles are next to 5 star
hotels. There are no natural and very few man-made disasters,
BUT for how long will it last?
Disclaimer: I only speak for myself