On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 01:43:07PM -0400, Dan Melomedman wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 07:23:22PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote:
> > No, I'm happy about that. The more "popular" linux became the more bloated
> > it became.
>
> I doubt the bloat will kill it, since bloat is mostly in the abundance
> of drivers Linux kernel has.
That's not true. Please read the sources. Really. Read the linux kernel
sources partitially and read the OpenBSD kernel sources partitially. You'll
see the difference.
> > It's a matter of fact that qmail isn't as reliable on Linux as on *BSD as it
> > relies on some FFS semantics ext2fs just doen not fulfill.
> This is not true, ext2fs can be mounted sync, and there are patches for
> Qmail to sync data. Linux allows for more flexibility in syncing: a
> metadata sync and a file sync can be separate calls.
This is a poor excuse for not having a "normal" mount, linux only knows
async and sync - the first one unreliable, the second one really slow.
I'm tired of this discussion. If you want to know more use the archives. If
you want to discuss it further do to advocacy@wherever.
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