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From: wgalazka@chem.uw.edu.pl (Wojciech Galazka)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Usefulness of BSD/Linux Source Knowledg
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 10:19:49 GMT
Organization: Chem. Dept., Warsaw Univ., Poland
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Summary: FreeBSD's new features
Keywords: devices, filesystem, FreeBSD
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In article <316kug$ea9@wsiserv.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> gabara@Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.DE (Andrej Gabara) writes:
>From: gabara@Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.DE (Andrej Gabara)
>Subject: Re: Usefulness of BSD/Linux Source Knowledg
>Date: 27 Jul 1994 21:52:16 GMT
>BSD has not developed a lot during 10 years. No dynamic loading of device
>drivers. I really like how IBM AIX does this. You install a drive by putting in
>the hardware, reboot, and voila, the system detects the drive, sets up the
>device files in /dev, dynamically loads the device driver, and you're set.
>The logical volumes are way cool. Have you ever created partitions for BSD? When
>you run out of space of one partition, how do you enlarge it? Easy ;-) backup the
>drive, change the partition sizes, and do a restore (taking hours at least). The
>AIX filesystem sizes grow on demand (since they are virtual, somewhat like
>virtual memory). People think this causes a lot of overhead, but I foud the AIX
>filesystem extremely fast.
>If BSD 4.5 would include the following:
>- Dynamic loading and configuration of devices (so people won't have to recompile
> kernels)
>- Logical volumes such as in AIX
>then I'm sure people will find BSD a lot more attractive than right now.
FreeBSD 2.0 will support runtime linkable device drivers. I don't know what
about virtual filesystems. Maybe someone knows if FreeBSD 2.0 will suport
this ?
Interested
Wojciech Galazka
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