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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!news.mtu.edu!lisa.acs.nmu.edu!aino.acs.nmu.edu!user From: scottr@acs.nmu.edu (Scott Reynolds) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: ffs & sunos? Date: 21 Nov 1994 03:49:27 GMT Organization: Northern Michigan University Lines: 32 Message-ID: <scottr-2011942249260001@aino.acs.nmu.edu> References: <3ahflh$og3@spruce.cic.net> <scottr-1811941644050001@sarmac.acs.nmu.edu> <3alvli$ssg@fido.asd.sgi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: aino.acs.nmu.edu In article <3alvli$ssg@fido.asd.sgi.com>, lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com wrote: > DNS/NIS is pretty good in SunOS, better than most peoples. What do you want > fixed? How should it work? This is one area that Solaris 2 actually implemented something that worked. The nsswitch.conf file is an excellent idea. I have had several problems with the NIS-based mechanism, primarily stemming from the fact that we maintain the passwd and group files with NIS but use DNS for hosts. The workaround for this (B=-b in /var/yp/Makefile) is at best kludgy. > 4.4 BSD style shared libraries *are* SunOS shared libs; Sun donated the code. I certainly wish there was a single .so file instead of both a .so and a .sa file, though. It's not a technical problem per se. > 4.4 BSD FFS is a much older and buggier version of Sun's UFS. [...] > Sun's is > better. I'll have to take your word for it. One thing that I'd like to see, though, is bigger filesystems. Modern RAID technology is giving us massive storage, and the only solution from Sun to date has been "get Solaris 2.x". In my opinion, they're not listening very well to their customers' needs. I'm glad I'm not completely out to lunch, though. Thanks, Larry! Scott Reynolds Northern Michigan University scottr@acs.nmu.edu