From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 6 15:48:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA16424 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 15:48:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from covina.lightside.com (covina.lightside.com [198.81.209.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA16419 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 15:48:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by covina.lightside.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #6) id m0uRnqN-0004KQC; Thu, 6 Jun 96 15:47 PDT Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 15:47:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Jake Hamby To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: I hate Solaris ACL's!!! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Jake Hamby wrote: > Okay, I've got a big FFS partition I'm trying to share between > FreeBSD-current and Solaris/x86, which sounds like a recipe for trouble, > I know, but it seems to be working well (assuming you fsck thoroughly > when you switch to the other OS), except for one big problem, thanks to > Solaris 2.5's ACL implementation. Arghh! Never mind. Solaris doesn't really like the FFS partition after all. I was getting annoying mouse/screen freezes in OpenWindows, then kernel panics, and finally Solaris just munged the FDISK (God, ever since I bought Solaris, it's been nothing but FDISK corruptions..) on that drive and I'm back in FreeBSD now. I've decided that the <50MB of duplication I had planned to save by sharing a partition between the two OS's is not worth the heartache! In spite of the fact that it was an extremely clever idea, if I do say so myself.. :-) As for why I'm even bothering with Solaris when FreeBSD is obviously much faster and nicer: I want to run Java Workshop and the JDK on a "supported platform" that doesn't have Windows in the title. Also, I do SPARC/Solaris development and wanted an environment as similar as possible at home for testing purposes. Even still, it's almost not worth it. And since NetBSD's Solaris emulation on a SPARC is not that compatible, I'm having doubts that if I get it going in FreeBSD it'll even be worthwhile, but I'll try anyway. I'll keep everyone posted... ---Jake