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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: The better (more suitable)Unix?? FreeBSD or Linux
Date: 22 Feb 1996 19:02:54 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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doolitt@recycle.cebaf.gov (Larry Doolittle) wrote:
] The "rare" occasions when I get cranking on some oddball development --
] that may involve large numbers of file creation and deletion
] (e.g., breaking a large data set into a number of smaller, calibrated
] ones) -- are _precisely_ the times that I care about performance.
] They are the times I had in mind when I chose a Pentium-90 to
] replace my 386/25. Don't tell me that speed doesn't matter
] while I am twiddling my thumbs to see if the tweak to my awk
] script did what I wanted.
]
] I am not saying that Linux is superior to *BSD or ext2fs is
] superior to ufs. I couldn't say that with a straight face
] unless I had first hand experience with *BSD or ufs. I _can_
] say that I am pleased with Linux and ext2fs, for their robustness
] and speed (our monster HP-SUX systems around here barely edge
] out my Pentium-90 when they are unloaded. Normally they are
] _Loaded_ with a capital L.)
Of course you are free to enable async metadata on UFS filesystems
as well, s long as you are willing to accept the same risks you
accept with async metadata on EXT2FS (in the absence of a non-sync
ordering mechanism).
To deny the risks exist because the workaround is inconvenient
is to delude yourself. Accept the risks, and if the price of
sync is too high, well, you have the source code.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.