Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 09:40:06 -0400 From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Sung Nae Cho <sucho2@quasar.phys.vt.edu> Cc: Nicolas Grieco <ng@t-online.fr>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD needs to awake and come out of SERVER only market! Message-ID: <3B5ECC36.47621190@mitre.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107250852360.20925-100000@quasar.phys.vt.edu>
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Sung Nae Cho wrote: > Aarrgh! Must...Resist...Trolling... Nuts, well I'll make this short: > > I don't know how far this have gone down the road and altered throughout > the course. But, I've never said desktops don't need stability. It all > started with some faction of FreeBSD users complaining about the default > enable of the disk write cache for modern hard drives in FreeBSD 4.x > series. My original post was literally responding to them, "Come on! > This is 21st Century and hard disks are reliable and we need to take full > advantage over those capable devices if FreeBSD's ever going to succeed in > desktop market. FreeBSD is no longer for server use only!" Personally, > I've been using UDMA capable disks (and, who doesn't these days?) with all > the DMA capabilities fully turned on and never had to compromise > performance with stability. If you are so worried about UDMA capable > disks to not to work as it suppose to, why in the world are you even > getting UDMA disk? Jee, lets get real here. Too many of the FreeBSD Where did this non-sequitor come from? Current state of FreeBSD: ATA disks are run at the maximum transfer rate the disk, controller, and cable allow. This includes things like UDMA100/66/33. Write Caching is enabled by default now. Filesystems have the option of running Softupdates, which almost as fast and _MUCH_ more reliable than async. ATAPI devices (CDROMs mostly) do not use DMA by default because a lot of ATAPI devices flat out lie about what they support. This is easily tunable if you are _sure_ your ATAPI devices supports DMA. It's just common sense. > Dept. of Physics, > Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University. As a Tech alumni, this embarrasses me. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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