Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 10:47:53 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Matt Wilbur <matt@efs.org>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cheezy "SysAdmin" magazine article Message-ID: <20010615104753.A61673@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <3B29C722.5979824B@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 01:28:18AM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106140956430.63728-100000@sargon.photon.com> <3B29C722.5979824B@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert said on Jun 15, 2001 at 01:28:18: > 15) Creation and deletion of large numbers of files in a > single directory is rather meaningless; witness the > moronic 'postmark' "benchmark", and the resulting > discussion on several FreeBSD lists. The "benchmark" > was clearly designed to put forth a political agenda > (in the context of the list discussion, this agenda > was the pro-ReiserFS position, despite Reiser's use > of several USL/Novell patents on Delayed Ordered > Writes, without the permission of the patent holders, > which render a pro-ResierFS argument as meaningless > as arguing about the number of angels which can dance > on the head of a pin). There was a thread on patented algorithms in FreeBSD on -hackers some days ago. For Jordan's opinion on that, see http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=346010+0+current/freebsd-hackers - R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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