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Xref: sserve comp.os.misc:3646 comp.unix.bsd:15795 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:7950 comp.os.linux.misc:32705 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4632 Newsgroups: comp.os.misc,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!bonkers.taronga.com!peter From: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: VMS,WNT,Alphas was re: interested in PowerPC... Organization: Taronga Park BBS Message-ID: <D1n67M.9q7@bonkers.taronga.com> References: <3cilp3$143@news-2.csn.net> <JRICHARD.94Dec23150646@sable.uml.edu> <D1Ct2A.LAo@bonkers.taronga.com> <3e1pp2$psp@oscar.agcs.com> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 1994 20:57:21 GMT Lines: 15 In article <3e1pp2$psp@oscar.agcs.com>, Wallace Roberts <robertsw@agcs.com> wrote: >peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >>We evaluated it at work. The fast reboots are very nice. The database >>impacts were ghastly. >IOW, TANSTAAFL. you were making payments for those fast reboots each >time you accessed a database. Well, of course, though there are models that give you fast reboots and good database performance as well (a conventional FS with journalling, for example, though it hurts from the extra disk I/O). I'm not complaining, just noting that for database-heavy applications a log based file system is a major loss.