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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:30935 comp.os.386bsd.questions:994 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: 386bsd, linux: which runs more out of the box? Message-ID: <hastyC4Dz01.DBH@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <SCT.93Mar23224452@belnahua.dcs.ed.ac.uk> <1oog8o$og4@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1oovb4INN7kf@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 09:14:25 GMT Lines: 43 In article <1oovb4INN7kf@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> dthumim@athena.mit.edu (Daniel J Thumim) writes: > >>Not a chance in Hell. efs is not stable. >> >>-- >> \ / Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu >> /\ \ PGP public key available on request. MIME, AMS, NextMail accepted. >>Scheme White heterosexual atheist male (WHAM) pride! > >This is simply not true. I have been using a single linux partition >with extfs, as root, for months, and since the 0.99 kernel it has been >steady as a rock. There were a few problems with 0.98 kernels, but >now there are no problems at all. It's gotten fragmented over time, >so that a kernel compile thrashes quite a bit, but no problems what- >soever. I'll be upgrading to e2fs sooner or later for better perform- >ance, I was thinking I'd wait for the efs->e2fs conversion program >from Remy but maybe I won't. I'm adding another filesystem now anyway, >so I will use e2fs. But don't call extfs unstable, it's not! > > -- |)aniel Thumim > dthumim@mit.edu Why don't we have a duel of 386bsd and Linux. Have the two OS talking to each other over telnet, ftp, mount file systems across. Do compiles over the net using nfs. Use X to open X terminals across and start up scripts. Have a fix script run over an over till one system dies :-) Amancio Hasty -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming