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- From: guru@camelot.bradley.edu (Jerry Whelan)
- Subject: Re: Packaging Linux
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.002110.14084@bradley.bradley.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 00:21:10 GMT
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- lmorris@mdd.comm.mot.com (Larry Morris) writes:
- -} njs@scifi.uucp (Nicholas J. Simicich) 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.
- -}
- -} Let me see:
- -} OS/2 : requires Shutdown
- -} Windows with smartdrv: requires "smartdrv /c"
- -} 386 Unixes: You bet they require sync.
- -} WinNT: I expect it will need synced (if/when it ships).
-
- However, SVR4.2, aka Destiny uses the Veritas(tm, I think)
- filesystem that does not require syncing, it also does disk striping.
-
- It can be done and it can work reasonably (I understand that
- the Veritas filesystem is decent in terms of speed, however I don't
- know efficient it is in terms of disk space).
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