Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 17:46:45 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> Cc: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG>, Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SGI, XFS and OSS? Message-ID: <199905212246.RAA69965@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> of "Thu, 20 May 1999 21:57:25 CDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.990520215619.26546f-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
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Alfred Perlstein writes: > irix doesn't ship with UFS anymore? Not for a very long time. Prior to XFS they used something called EFS. In the newest Irix EFS is supposed to be read-only. SGI still ships their CDROM's in EFS format. > > Don't the O2s have NVRAM for logging the metadata changes? That'd > > make a tremendous difference right away... > > Are you aware of any board you can get for PCs that provide something > like this? My ISSR required knowing if anything such as a large NVRAM was in a system. I've been thru a number of SGI systems and ever found more than a modest amount of NVRAM, and that was in a clock chip. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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