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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!nsw1.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-out.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!demos!demos1!demos2!hermes.sovam.com!sovam!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!news.corp.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!fido.asd.sgi.com!neteng!lm From: lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com (Larry McVoy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community" Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc Date: 28 Mar 1997 05:25:49 GMT Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 27 Message-ID: <5hfkot$a3t@fido.asd.sgi.com> References: <331BB7DD.28EC@net5.net> <5g9hjp$api@flea.best.net> <5he3pp$8ms$2@kayrad.ziplink.net> Reply-To: lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com NNTP-Posting-Host: neteng.engr.sgi.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37995 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6495 comp.sys.sgi.misc:29502 Mikhail Teterin (mi@rtfm.ziplink.net) wrote: : From what I can see, this demonstrates the superiority of hardware, : rather then OS. We don't even see what kind of disk/adapter was : used on the machines (IDE? :) The problem is that FreeBSD (really FFS) uses sync writes to maintain constency on the disk, it has to, that's the way FFS is designed. XFS uses a log to maintain constency. It's a lot faster. Linux just punts. It's the fastest but the most likely to screw you. The Linux guys swear I'm wrong but I don't believe it. XFS really is the best here - reliable and fast. It's also 45K lines of code. Sigh. : Not that I disagree competely, but the free Unices are stepping on : Big Vendors... If _one_ free Unix would step on all vendors, I'd love it. In fact I actively campaign to make that happen. I happen to have choosen Linux because of various reasons but I'm a whore for unification. If there was a greater chance that FreeBSD could unify the Unix world so that we could take some market share away from NT, I'd be a FreeBSD bigot. -- --- Larry McVoy lm@sgi.com http://reality.sgi.com/lm (415) 933-1804