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From: orc@pell.chi.il.us (Orc)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: The better (more suitable)Unix?? FreeBSD or Linux
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Date: 20 Feb 1996 16:40:31 -0800
Organization: The Dread Pirate Roberts
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References: <4er9hp$5ng@orb.direct.ca> <4fm2b1$ivs@park.uvsc.edu> <4fu70i$20q@pell.pell.chi.il.us> <4g32gv$esr@park.uvsc.edu>
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In article <4g32gv$esr@park.uvsc.edu>,
Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
>orc@pell.chi.il.us (Orc) wrote:
>>
>> In article <4fm2b1$ivs@park.uvsc.edu>,
>> Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
>>
>> >The best paper I have seen on this so far is Gregory R. Ganger
>> >and Yale N. Pratt's paper "Metadata Update Performance in File
>> >Systems", where they propose a mechanism they term "soft updates".
>> >
>> >A related paper, Eric H. Herrin II and Raphael A. Finkel's "The
>> >Viva File System" goes into some detail on what constitutes an
>> >idempotent vs. a non-idempotent operation, and where you must
>> >guarantee order atomicity -- as does the UCB "SPRITE" paper.
>>
>>
>> Where are these papers available?
>
>
>On the Internet.
>
>Oh, you mean you want their URLs... again.
Again? Well, yes, someone did mail me the ftp location for the viva
paper, but I presume that's not the 'again' you're talking about. (This
is an interesting example of the unreliability of usenet news for timely
delivery of anything; I've had possession of the Viva paper for about
three days now and have finished reading it. Interesting stuff, but I
don't really see what it has to do about sync metadata aside from
pointing out that it's dreadfully slow. Not quite as slow as the IP
connection from Pasadena to MIT <grrr>, but pretty close.)
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