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Date:      Wed, 11 Nov 1998 21:41:53 -0500 (EST)
From:      Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, obrien@NUXI.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Is it soup yet? :-) 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811112140340.725-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811112110170.370-100000@porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net>

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On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Brian Feldman wrote:
> 
> > > > > I can see we are simply of two minds on this issue. :) What do some of
> > > > > the others think?
> > > > 
> > > > While I agree with the silly name, I think we are approaching another
> > > > gratuitous change.  It is our history, /usr/mdec is where people are used
> > > > to looking, ...
> > > 
> > > It is our history to have buggy NFS.   It is our history to have a 
> > > bogus kernel module subsystem.  It is our history to play catch-up to 
> > > Linux.
> > 
> > When we "catch up" to Linux, for every advance, we always have a
> > better-implemented version of whatever new has been gotten on Linux. Maybe
> > except for NFS.... but that's being working on, eh?
> 
> I hope you are refering to Linux NFS being far inferior to FreeBSD's
> impelementation.  If you are not then where do we fall behind?  I haven't
> seen Linux outperform FreeBSD in any NFS work i've done.

Last I had heard, NFS was still too unstable to be used heavily in
FreeBSD, but "worked" in Linux. But, who knows for sure? I don't run any
Linux systems, and I don't really use NFS in FreeBSD. 

> 
> Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com
> -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD.
> -- http://www.freebsd.org/                        3.0-current
> 
Cheers,
Brian Feldman


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