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Re: FreeBSD/Linux
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Thu, 14 Sep 2000 20:57:45 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.orgSTOPSPAM
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> 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 event of a power failure, but that may also depend
> on the disk controller. I'm sure it must be configurable in Linux if you
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 projects in the works, though -- Hans Reiser's reiserfs,
Stephen Tweedie's ext3, IBM's jfs, and SGI's xfs. I don't think any of those
will make the initial 2.4 kernel, but ReiserFS should be in an update soon
after, and probably ext3 will too. I know people (VA Linux, for example) are
using ext3 in production environments already.
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
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