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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news00.sunet.se!sunic!news99.sunet.se!news.funet.fi!news.cs.hut.fi!news.clinet.fi!isil.lloke.dna.fi!rjs From: rjs@spider.compart.fi (Riku Saikkonen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system Subject: Re: The better (more suitable)Unix?? FreeBSD or Linux Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 11:08:18 GMT Organization: I laureloke Lines: 10 Message-ID: <DMx2xu.JHs@isil.lloke.dna.fi> References: <4er9hp$5ng@orb.direct.ca> <4f9skh$2og@dyson.iquest.net> <4fg8fe$j9i@pell.pell.chi.il.us> <311C5EB4.2F1CF0FB@freebsd.org> <4fjodg$o8k@venger.snds.com> <311DA774.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> <31220995.C4C54C1@acm.org> <3122B144.2781E494@FreeBSD.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: isil.lloke.dna.fi X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:13952 comp.os.linux.development.system:17560 Just to add something that I don't think has been mentioned: Linux ext2fs supports synchronous writes on a file-by-file basis; i.e. you can mark particular files to be updated synchronously on an otherwise async-mounted filesystem (don't know if it works the other way around, probably not). Ref. the chattr(1) man page. -- -=- Rjs -=- rjs@spider.compart.fi - http://isil.lloke.dna.fi/rjs/ Finger for PGP key (keyID CB992731). Fingerprint: 70 DE A8 92 5C 93 95 0E 21 CD D4 D9 44 AC 5C 44