From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Mar 25 21:11:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from hades.riverstyx.net (hades.riverstyx.net [216.94.42.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21C94153A9; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 21:11:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from unknown@riverstyx.net) Received: from localhost (unknown@localhost) by hades.riverstyx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA05418; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 21:14:09 -0800 Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 21:14:09 -0800 (PST) From: To: rick hamell Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD: The Storage Wars In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, rick hamell wrote: > > Linux-Alpha doesn't have the 2 gig problem, and the 2.2 series does have > > patches available to go past the 2 gig limit. > Which is why I personally don't like Linux. It seems that you're > always loading patches to fix little problems. :) Granted FreeBSD has > patches too. But when was the last time you needed a patch? :) Anyways, > isn't the Linux patch still limited to 8 gigs or so? Depends on which patch you're talking about, I think :-) According to Alan, the problem on 32-bit machines was using a signed integer, which limited it to 2 gig. There's a patch to make it unsigned which gives you 4 gig. Alpha machines have 64 bit integers, so the problem is pretty much totally gone there. I believe (but haven't installed for lack of need) there is a patch for 2.2 which is supposed to be moved into the stable kernel sometime soon that completely removes the 32-bit limit. I've never needed a patch, except for adding driver support (for the 3c905b ethernet adapter in 2.0.30) and fixing the various TCP/IP stack holes that were running rampant in 2.0.30 era kernels. I personally only use FreeBSD as a hobby machine. I'd like to use it in production but I haven't got enough FreeBSD knowledge to do that right now. I still can't find any documentation for changes I should make to the configuration/kernel/etc when I want to really push a FreeBSD machine... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message