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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.lava.net!nntp.reed.edu!usenet.ee.pdx.edu!cs.uoregon.edu!news.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!yama.mcc.ac.uk!cs.man.ac.uk!usenet From: f e l l o w s d @ c s . m a n . a c . u k (Dona K. Fellows - feeling spaced out) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 11 Feb 1997 10:58:42 GMT Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K. Lines: 37 Message-ID: <5dpjd2$i3l@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <32F378FC.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <slrn5ekm26.5ml.ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar> <32F68743.2781E494@freebsd.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: r8h.cs.man.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-User: 8028 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:158529 comp.os.linux.advocacy:84024 comp.os.linux.setup:97437 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2504 In article <32F68743.2781E494@freebsd.org>, John S. Dyson <dyson@freebsd.org> wrote: > There are other applications also, commerical and otherwise that our > BSDI and Linux emulators can run. Frankly, it is just *nice* to be > able to run a full spectrum of applications from various OSes. For > a similar reason, we support read/write of EXT2FS (mostly for upgrades > from Linux.) Hmm. Came across a wierd bug with the FreeBSD ext2 support recently where a combination of the FreeBSD NFS server, an ext2 filing system and a collection of SunOS4 clients resulted in some odd directory permissions behaviour. Note that I'm not the admin for the system where this problem occurred (nor am I even strictly on the same network) so I can't give more detailed reports on the problem (such as the version of FreeBSD or the exact hardware configuration of the server) and I'm not the right person to talk to about fixing the problems (Dave Gilbert <gilbertd@cs.man.ac.uk> is the right person) The point of all this is that, while I think that FreeBSD is all well and nice, toting it as a be-all-and-end-all to stability is, to say the least, premature. BTW, the machine also had a random reset problem, which was cured by disconnecting the reset switch so the invisible gremlins couldn't come along in the middle of the night and muck around with the machine (one time it managed to randomly reset itself while we were watching, so we know it wasn't happening through human intervention) <snorts> This post is beginning to feel like it ought to be cross-posted to alt.folklore.computers :^) Donal. -- Donal K. Fellows http://r8h.cs.man.ac.uk:8000/ (SAY NO TO COMMERCIAL SPAMS!) (work) fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk Dept. Comp. Sci, Univ. Manchester, U.K. | donal@ugglan.demon.co.uk 6,Randall Place, Heaton, Bradford, U.K. (home) +-> ++44-161-275-6137 Send correspondence to my office ++44-1274-401017 <-+