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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-was.dfn.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news.urz.tu-dresden.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community" Date: 31 Mar 1997 22:13:33 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <5hpcud$c0b@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <331BB7DD.28EC@net5.net> <5goqrq$5ak$1@news.clinet.fi> <5hd29s$e7t@fido.asd.sgi.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38276 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6544 comp.sys.sgi.misc:29607 lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com (Larry McVoy) wrote: > XFS is a journaling file system. Do an untar and walk up to the SGI and > turn the power off. Do the same thing to your FreeBSD machine. Then time > the boot. That's been about time for it. :-) My last experience with IRIX was 5.3 (it was at a previous employer, and they later abandoned SGI due to the bad bang-per-buck ratio), and with efs. Mind you, i knew BSD already for quite some time then, and i found that efs was the most fragile filesystem i've ever seen, even more fragile than the old UNIX filesystem on Interactive UNIX (S51K). The Indys were the only machines that really required an UPS. (Well, at least, their old FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 server now benefits from that UPS, even though the Indys are long gone. ;-) It's got uptimes of half of a year and more.) Good to hear that SGI has now a better filesystem. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)