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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"

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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. ;-)



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