On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, mberglund wrote:
> Because Linux already runs on a couple of platforms even NetBSD does not
> run on,
And vice-versa, last I checked. Let's be fair here. :-)
> PS: If FreeBSD DID run on PPC and S390 and offer the company I work for
NetBSD runs on lots of PPC machines, a
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Horst von Brand wrote:
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> mberglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
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> > License:
> > This project will not be restricted to any one license. If a piece
> > of software is desirable, but under an Artistic-, BSD-, or even
> > GPL-style license,
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> I'd love to see a filesystem feature where I could efficiently identify
> "changed files", where "changed" is defined by last time this application
> checked or something similar.
An in-filesystem revision number would do the trick. Could be REALLY
eff
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Larry McVoy wrote:
> That's a 48Kbyte/sec link. Hardly a "horribly fast network". In fact,
I meant FSMlabs, but yeah. ;-)
> Second of all, if you ask around, you'll find that I'm a performance guy
> more than anything and that I'm not given to skewing the numbers and *i
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Larry McVoy wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:55:01PM +0200, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > > Err, "faster"? The following is the moral equiv of 4 kernel updates
> > > which had nothing to do using BitKeeper instead of CVS. The local copy
> > > was in San Francisco and the re
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> I concur with this appraisal from Al Viro. Single threading the VFS is
> going backwards -- not a good idea.
It sounds to me like different FSes have different needs. Maybe the best
approach is to have two or three fs APIs, according to the needs of
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Tony Mantler wrote:
> (Obligitory disclaimer: QNX is an embedded operating system, both it's
> architecture and target market is considerably different from Linux's)
>
> QNX's filesystem interfaces make it so painfully easy to write a filesystem
> that it puts everything els
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