On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 06:17:45PM -0800, Carl Lowenstein wrote: >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.
actually I thought NFS came from the BSD3.4 line, clearly not. // George -- George Georgalis, information system scientist <IXOYE>< -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
