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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!sgigate.sgi.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!nntp-sc.barrnet.net!ratatosk.yggdrasil.com!hpa From: hpa@freya.yggdrasil.com (H. Peter Anvin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system Subject: Re: The better (more suitable)Unix?? FreeBSD or Linux Date: 5 Feb 1996 22:07:20 GMT Organization: linux.* maintainer Lines: 23 Message-ID: <hpa.31167ef4.I.use.Linux@freya.yggdrasil.com> References: <4er9hp$5ng@orb.direct.ca> <4f27sc$13a@dyson.iquest.net> <4f4c78$dsb@aurora.romoidoy.com> <strenDMBHHo.311@netcom.com> Reply-To: hpa@storm.net (H. Peter Anvin) NNTP-Posting-Host: freya.yggdrasil.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:13790 comp.os.linux.development.system:17335 Followup to: <strenDMBHHo.311@netcom.com> By author: stren@netcom.com (Sam Trenholme) In newsgroup: comp.os.linux.development.system > > 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. > Incorrect. ext2 is switchable too, but the default is different, mostly because it really turns out that BSD-style synchronous metadata updates are slow and buy you very little in terms of data safety, and can, in fact, be a security hole. -hpa -- PGP public key available - finger hpa@terminus.storm.net "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Bahá'u'lláh I don't work for Yggdrasil, but they sponsor the linux.* hierarchy.