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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!hunter.premier.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!warwick!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!news.ox.ac.uk!news From: paul@dutch.eng.ox.ac.uk (Paul D Thomas) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 6 Feb 1997 20:59:36 -0000 Organization: Oxford University Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5ddgno$nlb@dutch.eng.ox.ac.uk> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <slrn5fejrn.353.bet@onyx.interactive.net> <5d8f4p$jto@junkie.gnofn.org> <5dd5n7$72n@innocence.interface-business.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: dutch.eng.ox.ac.uk Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:82628 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2303 In article <5dd5n7$72n@innocence.interface-business.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de> wrote: >craig@gnofn.org (Craig Johnston) wrote: >I think this argument most often arises out of the different default >filesystem behaviour. Sure, it's noticeable if you do a large rm -r, >or tarring off a tape that creates numerous small files. OTOH, it's a >well-known attitude that most of the FreeBSD hackers vote for keeping >the current default of sync metadata writes (and we don't need to >create *that* discussion here again), so we won't change it. I'm The reason we have async writes in linux (metadata gets written more regularly, though) is that it is faster and *reliable*. We have idiots here who try and reboot the linux machines to get windows without doing a proper shutdown---linux just automatically fscks when it restarts and there is no problem. I have never seen corruption of the filesystem which can't be repaired by fsck. Paul. - paul.thomas@eng.ox.ac.uk