Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 13:51:24 -0800 (PST) From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Lamb.net> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, vadim@tversu.ac.ru Subject: Re: EFS Message-ID: <199610312151.NAA11746@Gatekeeper.Lamb.net> In-Reply-To: <199610311916.UAA17076@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Oct 31, 96 08:16:08 pm"
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> As Ulf Zimmermann wrote: > > (efs unstable) > > > I never did that observation on 5.3, also not 6.2. Irix is for me > > one of the best unix machines there you can press the reset button. > > Except they don't have a reset button (well, only a fairly hidden > one). > > The posted opinion is just my experience, i've seen more than one efs > partition gone with nobody really knowing what has been all damaged. > (The 5.3 systems used to crash very often with thei alpha-quality ISDN > driver.) Yes, the european ISDN driver in 5.3 need sseveral patches before you can consider it working. At that time I tried to use them, SGI germany was not able to get me the patches online. It took them 2 weeks to send me then a DAT tape with ALL patches at that time. > > All this is history for me, it's been at my former employer, and > they've meanwhile trashed the Indys. But it makes me reluctant about > the purpose behind an `efs' implementation for us... IMHO, ufs is > much more stable, at least the BSD implementation. Aehm, current employee, as that is right now SGI I need to use them ;-) > > -- > 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. ;-) > Ulf. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 Lamb Art Internet Services | http://www.Lamb.net/ | http://www.Alameda.net
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