From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 29 19: 4:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A018E14C7F; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 19:04:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA17205; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 19:29:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 19:29:17 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jay Nelson Cc: Kris Kennaway , Ataualpa Albert Carmo Braga , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: People who should know better (was Re: JFS) Message-ID: <20000129192917.I13027@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from noslenj@swbell.net on Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 08:36:21PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Jay Nelson [000129 19:10] wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Ataualpa Albert Carmo Braga wrote: > > > >> Is there something like JFS (AIX) in FreeBSD ? > > > >Please consult the mailing-list archives. > > Why? It seems like a reasonable question from someone who is familiar > with AIX, using STABLE and new to the list. Maybe a helpful pointer > would redirect the other people wondering the same thing. > > Sometimes, it's a little difficult for someone new to the list to know > what was discussed months ago. They may not realize that there is a > wealth of arcana buried in the archives. > > As FreeBSD grows in popularity, newcomers will ask the old questions > before they understand the mail archives and handbook. Or they will > get frustrated with answers like yours and ask the question directly. > > The price of attracting new users, I guess. Anyone know knows what JFS is or other interesting nooks and crannies of unix ought to be experianced enough to lookup an answer to thier question beforehand. If you did a search you'd see this question comes up every other day or so and sometimes even more often. If you're asking, you ought to know. It'd be nice if all unsubscribed/just-subscribed people got an email back saying: "hey have you searched here? if you can't find an answer for your question that wasn't answered _3 days ago_ please resend to i_really_got_a_question@freebsd.org, or subscribe" :) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message