From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 5 16:41:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA16858 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 16:41:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sendero-ppp.i-connect.net (sendero-ppp.i-Connect.Net [206.190.143.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA16852 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 16:41:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shimon@sendero-ppp.i-connect.net) Received: (qmail 15593 invoked by uid 1000); 5 Oct 1997 23:41:32 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2-alpha-092997 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199710052330.QAA23680@usr05.primenet.com> Date: Sun, 05 Oct 1997 16:41:32 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Atlas Telecom From: Simon Shapiro To: Terry Lambert Subject: Re: Good Lord, Commercial Linux Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, (Andreas Klemm) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi Terry Lambert; On 05-Oct-97 you wrote: > > Or did you compare things like the speed of rm -rf on a large > > directory tree without recognizing, that FreeBSD doesn't do > > asynchronous I/O to a file system as default ?! > > > > Please facts here. > > Sure. No problem. Repeat the test ten times. For five of them, > switch the machine off halfway through. Verify that the last file > it said it removed was in fact the same or only one file away from > the last file actually removed. > > Who else has screwed up deleteing, and hit the power to save their > bacon? I'm not proud: I admit doing it. I have never done that! :-) The power switch bit, that is. I hope my message in this thread is clear: Overall, FreeBSD is superior to Linux, and in more than one way. The functionality is very similar, and in many areas, so is the performance. Where functionality differences exist, they are minor, in most cases. The flow of knwoledge and sources back and forth is too great for this not to be true (for more than few relase cycles). I chose FreeBSD ove Linux for reasons other than above. Is it a much easier environment to be in? Normally yes, but not necessarily always. Am I willing to absorb the difficulties? Absolutely! --- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Atlas Telecom Senior Architect 14355 SW Allen Blvd., Suite 130 Beaverton OR 97005 Shimon@i-Connect.Net Voice: 503.799.2313