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Xref: sserve comp.os.misc:3664 comp.unix.bsd:15815 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:7969 comp.os.linux.misc:32813 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4674 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!fnnews.fnal.gov!FNALA.FNAL.GOV!MORPHIS From: morphis@FNALA.FNAL.GOV Newsgroups: comp.os.misc,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: VMS,WNT,Alphas was re: interested in PowerPC... Date: 2 Jan 1995 21:27:11 GMT Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3e9r3f$6m1@fnnews.fnal.gov> References: <3cilp3$143@news-2.csn.net> <3de485$s47@s30401.esu.edu> <3depog$npm@fnnews.fnal.gov> <JRICHARD.94Dec23150646@sable.uml.edu>,<D1Ct2A.LAo@bonkers.taronga.com> Reply-To: morphis@FNALA.FNAL.GOV NNTP-Posting-Host: fnala.fnal.gov peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <JRICHARD.94Dec23150646@sable.uml.edu>, >John Richardson <jrichard@sable.uml.edu> wrote: >> My personal "personal dream machine" would be OS/2* attached to Digital's >> new file system (possibly running motif) on a 125 MHz AXP and a 17" color >> monitor ... (slap! slap! wake up boy, wake up!) > >>hmmm.... Digital's new file system? I don't think I've heard about it... >>What does it do for you? > >It's just another logging file system. See the Sprite papers for the logic >behind it. It's a good FS for normal UNIX stuff but it sucks dirty sweat >socks for database work or anything else that does random access writes >to files. Its biggest advantage is you don't have to FSCK it and it's always >guaranteed stable (though it's not guaranteed that all transactions are >committed... I don't know how I'd care to use it on an NFS server). >We evaluated it at work. The fast reboots are very nice. The database >impacts were ghastly. Interesting reveiw but wrong file system, that is Digital's "new" (almost a year old now?) file system for OSF/1, they are supposed to be putting out a new 64 bit FS for VMS this summer. >(trimmed most of the newsgroups this time) Thanks Robert Morphis