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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!nntp.sei.cmu.edu!news.psc.edu!hoopoe.psc.edu!not-for-mail From: peterb@hoopoe.psc.edu (Peter Berger) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium Date: 5 Apr 1996 14:30:29 -0500 Organization: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4k3scl$qc9@hoopoe.psc.edu> References: <4jn4qp$6p@darkstar.my.lan> <4k0m0f$68j@hoopoe.psc.edu> <4k0r5l$g2@siberia.gtri.gatech.edu> <4k3rha$m9t@clark.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: hoopoe.psc.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:14231 comp.os.linux.development.system:20814 comp.os.linux.x:28754 comp.os.linux.hardware:35638 comp.os.linux.setup:49300 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:486 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3037 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2804 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16786 In article <4k3rha$m9t@clark.net>, Greg Hennessy <gsh@clark.net> wrote: >The areas where FreeBSD came out behind Linux are in disk IO. >Apparently the newest version of FreeBSD will have improvements there. er....kind of. Linux uses asynchronous metadata updates, which the *BSD crowd has always insisted puts you at a greater risk of losing data in the event of a crash. My understanding is that FreeBSD will be making this an option...whether async metadata updates are an improvement or not depends on your needs. I certainly will like having the option, anyway. -- Pete Berger Coordinator, Regional Information Infrastructure Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center