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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:31027 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1012 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!news.cs.jhu.edu!bogstad From: bogstad@blaze.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad) Subject: Re: 386bsd, linux: which runs more out of the box? Message-ID: <1993Mar24.215511.11113@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD References: <CGD.93Mar23030821@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <hwr.732890376@snert.ka.sub.org> <SCT.93Mar23224452@belnahua.dcs.ed.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 21:55:11 GMT Lines: 32 In article <SCT.93Mar23224452@belnahua.dcs.ed.ac.uk> sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) writes: >hwr@snert.ka.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp) writes: > >> There is another thing to consider: 386bsd has a stable BSD-FFS and >> stable networking, while there are bugs in the Linux efs and in their >> networking. > >Whoah there!!!! > >To the very best of my knowledge - and filesystems is What I Do on Linux >- there are no known bugs in the efs, minix or xiafs file systems. >There is a bug in the triple indirection handling of e2fs - fixes to be >released soon - but only files >64MB are affected. There are also a >couple of enhancements due in the e2fsprogs, too. > >It is fairly safe to say that efs and minix-fs are bug free now. They >have been around a long time (relative to Linux - they are all >obviously younger than the BSD ffs). ... Completely unsupported rumor follows... I seem to recall hearing that there is a known race condition in the minix-fs which can cause problems and that there was no intention to fix it since in the long run the minix-fs was "going away" and triggering the bug was thought to be difficult. Can somebody speak to this RUMOR please? Thanks, Bill Bogstad P.S. I still use the minix-fs on my Linux machine exclusively. I have not had any problem that I could in any way attribute to filesystem problems. (Other then the 14 character name limit...)