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Date:      Fri, 10 May 1996 11:57:00 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Cc:        asami@cs.berkeley.edu, terry@lambert.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: NFS in -current is _BUSTED_
Message-ID:  <199605101857.LAA02377@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199605100625.PAA07996@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at May 10, 96 03:55:17 pm

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> Different bcopy optimisations.  Diff -stable i386/i386/support.s against
> the -current version to see what Terry's talking about.

Yes.

> Au contraire.  So how big _is_ this filesystem?  I was being told by a
> rampant Linux-fanatic genetecist the other day that "of the PC unices,
> only Linux could possibly manage either of the HGI database, because
> it's so big."
> 
> According to him it's around the 100GB mark; obviously you wouldn't
> put this on one filesystem for performance/backup reasons, but it would
> be very funny to counter his drivel... 8)

One wonders how he runs Sybase, since the HGI needs that.  That's
why I was running Sybase on FreeBSD (back when the database was at
the 2G mark).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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