From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jun 15 1:47: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FA9637B407 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 01:47:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Rahul.Siddharthan@lpt.ens.fr) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id f5F8kx618767 ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 10:46:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id KAA62164 ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 10:47:53 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 10:47:53 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Terry Lambert Cc: Matt Wilbur , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cheezy "SysAdmin" magazine article Message-ID: <20010615104753.A61673@lpt.ens.fr> Mail-Followup-To: Terry Lambert , Matt Wilbur , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3B29C722.5979824B@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B29C722.5979824B@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 01:28:18AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert said on Jun 15, 2001 at 01:28:18: > 15) Creation and deletion of large numbers of files in a > single directory is rather meaningless; witness the > moronic 'postmark' "benchmark", and the resulting > discussion on several FreeBSD lists. The "benchmark" > was clearly designed to put forth a political agenda > (in the context of the list discussion, this agenda > was the pro-ReiserFS position, despite Reiser's use > of several USL/Novell patents on Delayed Ordered > Writes, without the permission of the patent holders, > which render a pro-ResierFS argument as meaningless > as arguing about the number of angels which can dance > on the head of a pin). There was a thread on patented algorithms in FreeBSD on -hackers some days ago. For Jordan's opinion on that, see http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=346010+0+current/freebsd-hackers - R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message