Thus spake Nathan J. Mehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > Can you please expand on how an inferior file system for Solaris is in
> > any way "a big win over the various free unixes"? Especially under the
> > assumption of a constrained budget, please.
> Could we please dispense with the flamebait?
The inferiority was noted by yourself, so I don't see a flamebait here.
> I think I've been pretty clear here: _IF_ you have an environment
> where filesystem integrity in case of power loss or other catastrophe
> is paramount, a journalling filesystem is probably going to be a
> requirement. Solaris X86 happens to offer it, bundled into the core
> operating system, and is currently free (as in dollars) for most uses.
Solaris X86 also happens to support very little mainstream hardware, is
an order of magnitude slower than Linux on the same hardware, and the
filesystem sucks by tradition -- with or without journaling.
As you might know, the journaling code is new in Solaris 7. Previously,
Sun would offer licensed code from another vendor (Veritas AFAIK). You
wouldn't actually recommend new Sun code to anyone for reliability
reasons, would you?
Besides, what makes you claim that there is no journaling for free
unices?
> > Who cares about "mainstream linux distributions"?
> I'm not trying to advocate a particular OS here.
I'm not complaining about the Linux here, but about the mainstream
distributions part.
Felix
