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- From: rpj@fir.canberra.edu.au (Ross Johnson)
- Subject: Re: Packaging Linux
- Message-ID: <rpj.722481660@fir>
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- Organization: Info Sci & Eng, University of Canberra, AUSTRALIA
- References: <17612@mindlink.bc.ca> <1992Nov20.160444.16116@scifi.uucp> <1992Nov20.190818.27245@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 01:21:00 GMT
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- In <1992Nov20.190818.27245@samba.oit.unc.edu> jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid) writes:
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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.
-
- DOS PC's running smartdrive should also be added to the list OS's
- needing syncing before power down (or hard reset). Incidently, on some
- (most?) Unix systems there's a daemon called "update" that will do a
- sync as often as you like.
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