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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!purdue!haven.umd.edu!news.umbc.edu!eff!news.duke.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!stren From: stren@netcom.com (Sam Trenholme) Subject: Re: The better (more suitable)Unix?? FreeBSD or Linux Message-ID: <strenDMBHHo.311@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) References: <4er9hp$5ng@orb.direct.ca> <strenDM7Gr4.Cn2@netcom.com> <4f27sc$13a@dyson.iquest.net> <4f4c78$dsb@aurora.romoidoy.com> Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 19:15:24 GMT X-Original-Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system Lines: 17 Sender: stren@netcom21.netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:13301 comp.os.linux.development.system:16646 >Let me put it in another way: Linux feels faster for the day-to-day >work. You usually don't copy large files very often. Hmmmm.... that may be a legitimate point, which worries me becuase the sort of playing around I do with one zillion files is takes a while on my ext2 filesystem. However, if I read the article before this one in the thread correctly, there is a price for the speed of ext2-- you stand more chance of a crash making your file system unusuable. The BSD FFS has an option that gives you this extra speed, at the expense of safety, and you can, for example, have a separate "news" partition that is fast/unsafe, and have your main partition be slow/safe. The ext2 filesystem, however, is forced to be in the "fast/unsafe" mode. -- Sam Trenholme - stren@netcom.com - http://ucsee/eecs/berkeley/edu/~set - LINUX!