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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 20:56:43 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen) wrote:
] Don't bother to tell Terry about your experiences, he will just declare
] your system obsolete and your tools out-of-date.
] Remember: sync metadata updates only work well on *his* system.
] On all others, it is just a drag.
Imagine that... I must have a lot of gall to declare obsolete
a file system implementation that doesn't properly conform to
the design documents from which it purports to be dervied.
Silly me.
Apparently, not having read the documents, you don't realize
that it is *impossible* for a conforming implementation to
result in the errors you want to attribute to UFS -- short
of a unrecoverable hardware failure. Do you not believe that
finite state automatons are deterministic? I can assure you
that they are.
Exactly what principle of Computer Science are you objecting to?
(Note: don't expect sympathy for your views: I am of the opinion,
odd as it may seem, that software does not mutate. Bit rot is a
myth).
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.