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#! rnews 2649 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!super.zippo.com!zdc!szdc!szdc-e!news From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@indy.celebration.net> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 11:39:33 -0800 Organization: AT&T Lines: 35 Message-ID: <3300CAF5.4B37@indy.celebration.net> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <32F378FC.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <slrn5ekm26.5ml.ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar> <32F68743.2781E494@freebsd.org> <5dpjd2$i3l@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> Reply-To: dyson@indy.celebration.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:157625 comp.os.linux.advocacy:83411 comp.os.linux.setup:96652 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2450 Dona K. Fellows - feeling spaced out wrote: > > In article <32F68743.2781E494@freebsd.org>, > John S. Dyson <dyson@freebsd.org> wrote: > > There are other applications also, commerical and otherwise that our > > BSDI and Linux emulators can run. Frankly, it is just *nice* to be > > able to run a full spectrum of applications from various OSes. For > > a similar reason, we support read/write of EXT2FS (mostly for upgrades > > from Linux.) > > Hmm. Came across a wierd bug with the FreeBSD ext2 support recently > where a combination of the FreeBSD NFS server, an ext2 filing system > and a collection of SunOS4 clients resulted in some odd directory > permissions behaviour. Note that I'm not the admin for the system > where this problem occurred (nor am I even strictly on the same > network) so I can't give more detailed reports on the problem (such as > the version of FreeBSD or the exact hardware configuration of the > server) and I'm not the right person to talk to about fixing the > problems (Dave Gilbert <gilbertd@cs.man.ac.uk> is the right person) > We'll get on it, after the Lite/2 merge is complete!!! Alot of our filesystem work has been in limbo, and I think that the things will be moving alot more quickly after this recent change. > > The point of all this is that, while I think that FreeBSD is all well > and nice, toting it as a be-all-and-end-all to stability is, to say > the least, premature. > I agree that it definitely isn't perfect. I am one of FreeBSD's harshest critics, but also try to fix the problems ASAP (when I can.) John dyson@freebsd.org