On Wed, February 7, 2007 9:16 pm, Dean Michael Berris wrote: > I had been developing a C++ application back then which used Berkeley > DB and had been developing with the target platform being FreeBSD 5. I > had to check why I was getting extreme corruption rates on the BDB > databases, and low and behold it was a UFS issue -- because it never > really does a "sync()" on its own, and running on an SMP machine > caused race conditions and data corruption in high read+write systems. > > Now that was already FreeBSD 5, and the touted stability crumbled > right before my very eyes. And no, it's not a trivial system that I > was developing. But you know what? The application ran better on an > un-updated RedHat 9 system which featured a 2.4 kernel using the then > "new" ext3 filesystem with journaling. No, I didn't have to do > anything with the code because I was using the same compiler in > FreeBSD and Linux, and I had been able to do a side-by-side > comparison. > > So the last time I checked was FreeBSD 5 versus RedHat 9. Go Figure.
hmm freebsd5 was never considered stable even by the developers. the smp code is new, the fs code is also new at that time (ufs2). freebsd5 branch is considered a "TESTING" branch. its an experimental branch leading to 6. you should have used freebsd4 on that time is you want stability. not starting another flame thread but you should have read or asked a local bsd group why that thing happened on you instead of concluding that one os' fs sucks. you can retry the test using either freebsd4 or freebsd6. > I don't F'n care whether the US government funded this or that -- that > doesn't matter. Linus didn't need a grant to develop Linux and it's > even better than any BSD kernel in any aspect IMNSHO. in any aspect? does linux have carp? does linux do pfsync? does linux have pf? yes it does have iptables. but have you considered comparing the two? i have also read a thread in the linux kernel mailing list that linux is lagging behind freebsd in terms of wireless drivers. iirc andrew morton is even worried before about the status of the linux kernel development. linux may be better in "some" aspects but bsd is also better in "some" aspects. if you say in ANY aspect, we can't agree on that matter but that doesn't mean another thread war should be started again. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List plug@lists.linux.org.ph (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
