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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
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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. ;-)