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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



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