From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Feb 18 9:19:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DA0D37B9E6 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 09:19:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr06.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA01688; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 10:19:21 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAL6a4jd; Fri Feb 18 10:19:09 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA02544; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 10:19:18 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200002181719.KAA02544@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: BSD vs. Linux comments To: chat@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 17:19:17 +0000 (GMT) Cc: Alfred@primenet.com, Perlstein@primenet.com, X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Please don't bring reiser to the table unless you've read > and understood: http://devlinux.com/projects/reiserfs/8_1.html > > Look, I'm not even really saying that FreeBSD is better, I'm > just saying that some truth would be a refreshing change. Cool. I read the Reiser document with interest. They incorrectly spelled "Ganger", and omitted "Patt". The algorithm they use is familiar... hmmm... It is in violation of US Patent 5,666,532, on Delayed Ordered Writes, something I've mentioned many times in the past as being significantly inferior to Soft Updates. Should you tell them, or should I tell Novell? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message