From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Mar 8 9:24:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0BB137B71C for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:24:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vcardona@home.com) Received: from marx.marvic.chum ([24.17.229.11]) by femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010308172438.SYIE811.femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com@marx.marvic.chum>; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:24:38 -0800 Received: (from vcardona@localhost) by marx.marvic.chum (8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) id f28HPmq09059; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 11:25:48 -0600 Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 11:25:48 -0600 From: "Victor R. Cardona" To: Doug Young Cc: "Denis J. Cirulis" , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About Unix Message-ID: <20010308112548.F8865@marx.marvic.chum> Mail-Followup-To: Doug Young , "Denis J. Cirulis" , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG References: <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <024301c0a7de$930db020$847e03cb@apana.org.au>; from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:46:32AM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- Victor R. Cardona vcardona@home.com "Behold the keyboard of Kahless, the greatest Klingon code warrior that ever lived!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message