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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!auspex-gw.auspex.com!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: 26 Feb 1996 21:01:50 GMT Organization: linux.* maintainer Lines: 30 Message-ID: <hpa.31321eee.I.use.Linux@freya.yggdrasil.com> References: <4gejrb$ogj@floyd.sw.oz.au> <4gilab$97u@park.uvsc.edu> <4giqu8$aqk@park.uvsc.edu> <4gira2$a9d@park.uvsc.edu> Reply-To: hpa@storm.net (H. Peter Anvin) NNTP-Posting-Host: freya.yggdrasil.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:14628 comp.os.linux.development.system:18376 Followup to: <4gira2$a9d@park.uvsc.edu> By author: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> In newsgroup: comp.os.linux.development.system > > mday@park.uvsc.edu (Matt Day) wrote: > > [ ... ] > > ] Synchronous metadata updates suck. > > Absolutely *nothing* sucks worse than losing data. > > Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. > The problem is, sync metadata updates do *not* help you avoid losing data. It helps you from losing *files*. The two are not the same, since sync metadata doesn't help you make sure there is anything reasonable IN those files! Hence, given your last criterion, async metadata is better. It does what it claims to (work quickly), whereas sync metadata does not (help you avoid data loss). -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.