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- From: jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid)
- Subject: Re: Packaging Linux
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.190818.27245@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- References: <17612@mindlink.bc.ca> <1992Nov20.160444.16116@scifi.uucp>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:08:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.160444.16116@scifi.uucp> njs@scifi.uucp (Nicholas J. Simicich) writes:
- >In article <17612@mindlink.bc.ca> Neklan_Brozensky@mindlink.bc.ca (Neklan Brozensky) writes:
- >
- >I personally think that another essential for mass-usage is going to
- >be a filesystem that doesn't require sync() or fsck. This isn't an
- >impossible task, and yes, there is a performance hit, but I don't
- >think you are going to sell a system to the masses that they can't
- >turn off whenever they want to.
- >
- This isn't really a function of the filesystem so much as U*IX-like os's
- standard use of buffer caching to speed disk access. I think that the
- performance hit for disk intensive jobs is higher than you think...
- (try dyking out the buffer cache code in the kernel, if you want to try,
- or easier put sync in the crontab to go off every second, come to think
- of it, thats a way to make a system for people who insist on no buffering)
-
- as for selling "a system to the masses", apart from the question of whether
- Linux could be sold to the masses and whether that is desirable I think
- that the Macintosh has sold pretty well...
-
- jem.
-
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