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From: se@FileServ1.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: LINUX SUCKS!!!!
Date: 30 Oct 1994 00:24:40 GMT
Organization: Institute of Nuclear Physics, University of Cologne, Germany
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In article <1994Oct28.041604.589@escape.widomaker.com>, shendrix@escape.widomaker.com (Shannon Hendrix) writes:
|> If it does say BSD... it's not Linux!  And...
|> 
|> * it will crash more and worse
|> * it's file systems will be slower
|> * it will have less support
|> * it will have you as a user

Well, seems you ignore the fact, that 
one of the biggest FTP-Archives in the 
INTERNET runs a free BSD, with uptimes 
of several months between shutdowns, that
are only required to allow installing 
another SCSI controller ... (it has got
its fourth SCSI controllers recently).

The filesystem is one of the parts, where 
BSD is far more advanced than Linux, in 
both speed and robustness (nobody in their
right mind would use the option to switch 
off synchronous metadata updates under BSD,
since this might void your filesystem in 
case of a crash, as is the default under
Linux).

If you want to discuss filesystem features
and pros and cons, feel free to do so. But 
please first try to understand what the BSD 
FFS does to combine performance, reliability
and economy of disk space use (ie. fragments).

Please get your facts right before posting, 
since there might be readers of these 
newsgroups who might be lead to believe
the nonsense you wrote ...

Regards, STefan
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