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From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
Subject: Re: 386bsd, linux: which runs more out of the box?
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References: <hwr.732890376@snert.ka.sub.org> <SCT.93Mar23224452@belnahua.dcs.ed.ac.uk> <1oog8o$og4@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 19:29:11 GMT
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In article <1oog8o$og4@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
>
>In article <SCT.93Mar23224452@belnahua.dcs.ed.ac.uk> sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk
>(Stephen Tweedie) writes:
>>
>> It is fairly safe to say that efs and minix-fs are bug free now.
>
>Not a chance in Hell.  efs is not stable.

	Oh, brother.  While it is true that the efs in the 0.98 kernels had
bugs in it, the efs that is in the 0.99 kernels has tended to be quite stable.

-Eric


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