Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 17:52:28 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: vadim@tversu.ac.ru Subject: Re: EFS Message-ID: <199610311652.RAA14734@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <E0vIlQm-0000DF-00@rover.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Oct 30, 96 05:56:24 pm"
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
As Warner Losh wrote: > SGI is currently supporting a Linux port to their machines. However, > I've not seen that code released yet. When it is, maybe that will be > enough documentation to port code. But then again, maybe not. It is > supposed to support efs as well, or so the rumors I've heard say. Btw., IRIX' efs is among the most fragile file systems i've seen (or its particular implementation in IRIX 5.2 and 5.3, maybe). One power failure or panic, and even X servers (guaranteed to be only read, never written) went away through /dev/null... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199610311652.RAA14734>