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From: michael@selway.umt.edu (Michael Babcock)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: LINUX SUCKS!!!!
Date: 30 Oct 1994 15:47:23 -0700
Organization: University of Montana, Missoula
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References: <085334Z20101994@anon.penet.fi> <38mj72$a82@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <1994Oct28.041604.589@escape.widomaker.com> <38up48INN1o5e@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE>
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In article <38up48INN1o5e@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE>,
Stefan Esser <se@FileServ1.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE> wrote:
>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).

The above paragraph, of course, is wrong.

Michael Babcock
michael@selway.umt.edu

And since this is Usenet I have to add: I'm not saying that Linux or
BSD is better, I'm only saying what I said.