![](/news/x.gif) | | Re: BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement )
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(...) LUGNET runs on a descendent of UNIX called FreeBSD. --Todd (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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![](/news/x.gif) | | Re: BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement )
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(...) Todd, Would you mind sharing what kind of a database Lugnet runs on also? :-) - Dan (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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![](/news/x.gif) | | Re: BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement )
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(...) Todd, can you offer any opinions regarding FreeBSD v. Linux? At work we are using Linux, but I often hear how FreeBSD is just a tad more stable. Of course, Linux has all this buzz going for it. Whaddaya think? How has FreeBSD served Lugnet (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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![](/news/x.gif) | | Re: BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement )
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(...) It runs a Perl database called PDB. --Todd (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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![](/news/x.gif) | | FreeBSD/Linux
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(...) I like both. Linux is what I run at home on my main system. Linux has excellent disk write caching, but I think by default it writes things in disk-spin order rather than temporal data-write order, which could affect integrity in the rare (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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![](/news/x.gif) | | Re: FreeBSD/Linux
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(...) I don't know anything about that, but one related issue is that Linux does not yet have a journalizing filesystem which means that power failures can be a real pain, especially if you have to fsck a large disk. There's a bunch of journaling fs (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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