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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:32213 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1176 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!crcnis1.unl.edu!wupost!uunet!pipex!ibmpcug!iocgate!dfr From: dfr@ioc.co.uk (Doug Rabson) Subject: Re: 386bsd, linux: which runs more out of the box? Sender: news@ioc.co.uk Message-ID: <DFR.93Mar30105549@rhino.ioc.co.uk> In-Reply-To: peter@NeoSoft.com's message of Sun, 28 Mar 1993 18:12:28 GMT Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1993 10:55:48 GMT Lines: 16 References: <ins407x.733191967@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> <C4JopF.KrH@sugar.neosoft.com> <1p3hfg$geh@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <C4M2Kt.1HI@sugar.neosoft.com> Nntp-Posting-Host: rhino.ioc.co.uk Organization: Intelligent Office Company Ltd. In article <C4M2Kt.1HI@sugar.neosoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > In article <1p3hfg$geh@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes: > > While that may be true, I'm inclined to point out that the most solid > > *I've* ever seen is IBM's JFS under AIX 3. > > I've been told before that the AIX file system is incredible. Problem is, > you have to run AIX to get it. The AIX filesystem is great when it comes to reliability but it is a bit wasteful of disk space. The minimum allocation unit is 4k so it wastes a lot of space when you have loads of small files (like my news partition :-( ) -- Doug Rabson, IOC Ltd. | Email: dfr@ioc.co.uk Phone: +44 81 528 9864 | drabson@cix.compulink.co.uk Fax: +44 81 528 9878 |