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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!swidir.switch.ch!swsbe6.switch.ch!surfnet.nl!newshost.vu.nl!cs.vu.nl!sun4nl!rnzll3!sys3.pe1chl!rob From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen) Subject: Re: The better (more suitable)Unix?? FreeBSD or Linux Reply-To: pe1chl@wab-tis.rabobank.nl Organization: PE1CHL Message-ID: <DMI5Mt.768@pe1chl.ampr.org> References: <4er9hp$5ng@orb.direct.ca> <311250C2.2781E494@public.uni-hamburg.de> <strenDM7Gr4.Cn2@netcom.com> <DMD8rr.oIB@isil.lloke.dna.fi> <4f9skh$2og@dyson.iquest.net> Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 09:42:28 GMT Lines: 18 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:13970 comp.os.linux.development.system:17588 In <4f9skh$2og@dyson.iquest.net> root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) writes: >Linux is more vulnerable to filesystem problems due to the delayed writes >of metadata (and is the reason that FreeBSD is slower on file >create/delete benchmarks.) It seems to be very hard to get this misconception out of the BSD people's heads... Sync metadata writes may seem to improve things, but actually it just causes your fsck's to return no errors while the files are still corrupted. Not necessarily better. Rob -- +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ | Rob Janssen rob@knoware.nl | BBS: +31-302870036 (2300-0730 local) | | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8WNO.#UTR.NLD.EU | +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+