Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 11:25:48 -0600 From: "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona@home.com> To: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> Cc: "Denis J. Cirulis" <monster@okb.lv>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About Unix Message-ID: <20010308112548.F8865@marx.marvic.chum> In-Reply-To: <024301c0a7de$930db020$847e03cb@apana.org.au>; from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:46:32AM %2B1000 References: <OFA420CC63.6AEAEDB6-ON87256A08.006994B1@smed.com> <01030800251100.00557@r55h47.res.gatech.edu> <20010308115639.A4298@strindberg.maisel.enst-bretagne.fr> <022801c0a7c0$024f8860$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <20010308131205.A1029@okb.lv> <024301c0a7de$930db020$847e03cb@apana.org.au>
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On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:46:32AM +1000, Doug Young wrote:
> There is a technical basis to this stuff ..... apprently linus & his
> followers
> chose to adopt a different way of writing files than with "proper"unixes in
> order to gain a bit more speed, whereas BSD / Solaris / SCO / HP-UX
> etc considered reliability of higher significance than outright speed. This
> issue has been discussed several times in the 'questions" list.
Yes they chose asynchronous writes as the default. You can change this
however.
- v
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