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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:31084 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1029 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!karl From: karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Subject: Re: 386bsd, linux: which runs more out of the box? Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1993 00:08:09 GMT Message-ID: <C4F4Dn.36u@sugar.neosoft.com> References: <CGD.93Mar23030821@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <hwr.732890376@snert.ka.sub.org> <SCT.93Mar23224452@belnahua.dcs.ed.ac.uk> Lines: 17 In article <SCT.93Mar23224452@belnahua.dcs.ed.ac.uk> sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) writes: >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. Then you guys need to get your FAQ updated, there's stuff in there about partitions that fsck won't fix and the solution -- reformat the partition. While someone's in there, get them to take out the total slander against 386BSD, claiming it only gets 5 KB/sec on ethernet FTP transfers, when we regularly see 250 KB/sec. -- -- Email me for info on getting interactive Internet access. "File names are infinite in length where infinity is set to 255 characters." -- Peter Collinson, "The Unix File System"