On Dec 15, 2007 5:44 PM, George Georgalis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 05:21:57PM -0800, James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
> >SJS wrote:
> >> begin quoting Bob La Quey as of Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 01:47:19PM -0800:
> >>>
> >>> Maybe we should be looking harder at FreeBSD?
> >>
> >> If you're going to run a fileserver -- especially if you're using NFS --
> >> then you should be already, no?
> >
> >Is there widespread feeling that FreeBSD makes a better fileserver than
> >Linux?
> >
> >I wouldn't mind hearing any elaboration on this.
>
> UFS, softupdates for disk integrity and faster feel on busy
> systems. but if you're thinking about BSD, NetBSD is cleaner.
> I think nfs was designed on BSD and just works better there,
> not sure.
Surely you know that NFS came from Sun, circa 1989. Maybe they
developed it on SunOS, which is closer to BSD than to the other flavor
of Unix.
carl
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