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Xref: sserve comp.sys.powerpc:31059 comp.sys.intel:27881 comp.os.misc:3654 comp.unix.bsd:15805 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:7958 comp.unix.sys5.r4:9004 comp.unix.misc:15390 comp.os.linux.development:22012 comp.os.linux.misc:32746 comp.os.linux.misc:32747 comp.os.386bsd.development:2967 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4653 Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.intel,comp.os.misc,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.misc,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!night.primate.wisc.edu!caen!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gatech!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!newsfeed.rice.edu!news.sesqui.net!uuneo.neosoft.com!bonkers.taronga.com!peter From: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: VMS,WNT,Alphas was re: interested in PowerPC... Followup-To: comp.os.misc,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Organization: Taronga Park BBS Message-ID: <D1Ct2A.LAo@bonkers.taronga.com> References: <3cilp3$143@news-2.csn.net> <3de485$s47@s30401.esu.edu> <3depog$npm@fnnews.fnal.gov> <JRICHARD.94Dec23150646@sable.uml.edu> Date: Sun, 25 Dec 1994 06:37:22 GMT Lines: 20 In article <JRICHARD.94Dec23150646@sable.uml.edu>, John Richardson <jrichard@sable.uml.edu> wrote: > My personal "personal dream machine" would be OS/2* attached to Digital's > new file system (possibly running motif) on a 125 MHz AXP and a 17" color > monitor ... (slap! slap! wake up boy, wake up!) >hmmm.... Digital's new file system? I don't think I've heard about it... >What does it do for you? It's just another logging file system. See the Sprite papers for the logic behind it. It's a good FS for normal UNIX stuff but it sucks dirty sweat socks for database work or anything else that does random access writes to files. Its biggest advantage is you don't have to FSCK it and it's always guaranteed stable (though it's not guaranteed that all transactions are committed... I don't know how I'd care to use it on an NFS server). We evaluated it at work. The fast reboots are very nice. The database impacts were ghastly. (trimmed most of the newsgroups this time)