Re: sparc station

On 8/12/2004 9:00 AM, Matthew Schumacher wrote:
> Intel box. Now the bsd's are nice and I believe them to be more stable
> than linux, but they lack important features such as LVM,

No argument there, though I honestly have no experience with it.

> nsswitch

NSS is part of FreeBSD 5.1 and higher. Not sure about the other BSDs.

>and a journaling fs.

Whoa! Free/Net/OpenBSD *definitely* have a something that is as good
-- if not better than -- a traditional journaling filesystem.

        http://www.mckusick.com/softdep/

Snapshots, soft updates, and fsck in the background. In practice, not
only does this make it so that the box almost *always* comes up
immediately, the only filesystem inconsistencies possible are unclaimed
blocks. It's rock-solid, and works great on my Ultra 30. I had a
power problem in the apartment that must have interrupted power to
the box in the middle of disk writes ten times -- and it came back up
every time.

> Yes, I know there are work-arounds, but far and wide
> linux meets most of my server needs.

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