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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system Subject: Re: Linux user's comments (since 0.98! :-) on FreeBSD 2.1 Date: 8 Jan 1996 23:18:03 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 54 Message-ID: <4cs8nb$jst@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4cr16t$obt@topcat.uk.gdscorp.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:12147 comp.os.linux.development.system:15315 jrmt@uk.gdscorp.com (Jon Thackray) writes: > - How can I turn off synchronous updates on meta-data under FFS? You can mount it with -o async. Anyway, this didn't do much until recently. After the greate ext2fs integration, John Dyson found out a few spots where it's worth the while to make things asynchronous. Anyway, you'll only notice most of the speedup during things like rm -rf's or ln -s orgys (lndir comes to mind). For the daily work, the speed improvement isn't that noticeable. (I'm running my /tmp and my /usr/release mounted async.) > I'd like my disk to be fast and quiet again! Also, what's the status > of the LFS? An incomplete left-over from Berkeley? Left-over, with some people interested in wiping the dust off it. > - Loadable modules don't appear to work out of the box. Compiling the > kernel without MSDOS support, and then saying mount_msdos gives > '(vfs)cannot find msdos_module'. Sounds about as broken as Linux at > the moment ;-) Interesting. It works for me all day. I usually have at least cd9660 and procfs vfs-loaded. > - Is there any documentation on ext2fs within FreeBSD? > How stable is it? (guess I'll have to join the mailing list > @freebsd.org) It's only in FreeBSD-current, since it's still experimental. No clues about its stability, but since John has been releasing it to the public, i assume it's not too bad. > - Can I map alt+left and right cursor keys for switching virtual > consoles, as well as alt+f1, alt+f2, etc? No real idea. > - Linux compatibility compile option? Can I run Linux a.out binaries, > and how? I've not got many ELF binaries yet, so I'm not too worried > about those. I think so, but you have to resort to some documentation. I don't need it, and i don't have some Linux binaries handy. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)