Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 21:14:09 -0800 (PST) From: <unknown@riverstyx.net> To: rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD: The Storage Wars Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9903252108070.5097-100000@hades.riverstyx.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.990325194449.25025G-100000@dsinw.com>
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On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, rick hamell wrote: > > Linux-Alpha doesn't have the 2 gig problem, and the 2.2 series does have > > patches available to go past the 2 gig limit. > Which is why I personally don't like Linux. It seems that you're > always loading patches to fix little problems. :) Granted FreeBSD has > patches too. But when was the last time you needed a patch? :) Anyways, > isn't the Linux patch still limited to 8 gigs or so? Depends on which patch you're talking about, I think :-) According to Alan, the problem on 32-bit machines was using a signed integer, which limited it to 2 gig. There's a patch to make it unsigned which gives you 4 gig. Alpha machines have 64 bit integers, so the problem is pretty much totally gone there. I believe (but haven't installed for lack of need) there is a patch for 2.2 which is supposed to be moved into the stable kernel sometime soon that completely removes the 32-bit limit. I've never needed a patch, except for adding driver support (for the 3c905b ethernet adapter in 2.0.30) and fixing the various TCP/IP stack holes that were running rampant in 2.0.30 era kernels. I personally only use FreeBSD as a hobby machine. I'd like to use it in production but I haven't got enough FreeBSD knowledge to do that right now. I still can't find any documentation for changes I should make to the configuration/kernel/etc when I want to really push a FreeBSD machine... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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