From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 2 11:11:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail-out.visi.com (kauket.visi.com [209.98.98.22]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B9B240A3 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 11:11:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from isis.visi.com (isis.visi.com [209.98.98.8]) by mail-out.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 193ED3923; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 13:10:51 -0600 (CST) Received: (from sdk@localhost) by isis.visi.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA01645; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 13:10:51 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 13:10:51 -0600 From: Stephen To: Matthew Dillon Cc: "Ronald G. Minnich" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re/Fwd: freebsd specific search Message-ID: <20000202131051.A645@visi.com> References: <200002021859.KAA00937@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.1i In-Reply-To: <200002021859.KAA00937@apollo.backplane.com>; from Matthew Dillon on Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 10:59:34AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 10:59:34AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Linux has made great strides in the performance area -- the are way ahead > of us on SMP issues, but they are definitely still behind in the > reliable department. They almost caught up when we were going through > our 3.0/3.1 fiasco but then fell behind again. I agree with your general > assessment (though I'm even more rabid about NT, which I consider > plain and simply to be a piece of crap). > > It interesting to note that two years ago it was well known that running > NFSv3 under FreeBSD would destabilize it, so most people ran NFSv2. > Even NFSv2 2 years ago had problems. Linux is just reaching the point > now with NFSv2 where we were with NFSv3 two years ago. Thus in regards > to NFS, FreeBSD is about 2 years ahead of Linux. At this time both > NFSv2 and NFSv3 under FreeBSD are considered stable and reliable. > Re NFS stability. What version of the 3.x branch contained the updated NFS code? 3.3? Thanks, sk -- sdk@yuck.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message