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Xref: sserve news.software.nntp:14932 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4261 comp.os.linux.advocacy:15946 Path: sserve!euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!news.bc.net!info.ucla.edu!library.ucla.edu!galaxy.ucr.edu!jjs From: jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan) Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun/Solaris or Pentium/Linux for new server ? Date: 4 Aug 1995 17:33:44 GMT Organization: University of Calfornia at Riverside Lines: 34 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <3vtllo$f25@galaxy.ucr.edu> References: <3vlpgk$rdk@graphite.comco.com> <3vpg3g$q35@shell2.best.com> <3vq3if$jmp@dodgson.math.psu.edu> <3vsc3k$io7@helena.MT.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dostoevsky.ucr.edu In article <3vsc3k$io7@helena.MT.net>, Nate Williams <nate@sneezy.sri.com> wrote: >Right, and in his lmbench #'s, the FS performance of FreeBSD is roughly >1.5 times faster than a comparable linux box in all areas *except* for >non-standard things like 'rm -rf *' and some directory updates. And, it >has yet to be proven safe throughout crashes. Many people claim to have >not lost files, while others claim the exact opposite. > >Until someone does a head-head comparison on the same hardware in bad >conditions I will stick with the BSD FFS, as it's been tested for years. I know this "anecdotal evidence" may not be scientifically valid, but I messed around with netBSD 0.9 a while back. I was impressed with the smoothness of the networking, and the general feel of the system; I was also running linux 0.99.15 on some other machines in the same lab. Oddly, the netBSD machine had serious disc crashes on at least 2 occasions, resulting in a loss of key system files. During the same period, the 4 linux machines running in the same lab, under the same conditions, experienced no filesystem failures of any kind. Even when the power was shut off unexpectedly in a linux machine, the filesystems would undergo the usual fsck and always come up successfully repaired. I have no axe to grind against BSD, and it might have been some bugs that have been worked out; I don't know, because I installed linux on the machine, and have never had a hint of filesystem failure ever since. just my $.02 -- Joe Sloan jjs@engr.ucr.edu http://dostoevsky.ucr.edu Win95? No, none for me, thanks - I'm already running Linux... Microsoft is not the answer - Microsoft is the question; the answer is NO!