From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 10 11:58:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA15208 for current-outgoing; Fri, 10 May 1996 11:58:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA15201 for ; Fri, 10 May 1996 11:58:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA02377; Fri, 10 May 1996 11:57:00 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199605101857.LAA02377@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: NFS in -current is _BUSTED_ To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 11:57:00 -0700 (MST) Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, terry@lambert.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199605100625.PAA07996@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at May 10, 96 03:55:17 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.