In the immortal words of Felix von Leitner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Thus spake Nathan J. Mehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > > Solaris 7 does come with a FS that journals metadata, but no one's
> > > ever benchmarked it's performance with a large todo for the list.
> > Well, like I said, it's not necessarily best-of-breed, it's just
> > there, which is a big win over the various free unixes if you're
> > working on a constrained hardware budget.
>
> 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?
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.
If you have an environment where read/write performance is critical,
but reliability isn't, you've got... well, actually what you've got is
a nice leadin to the eternal "ext2 vs ffs" debate, which is even more
off-topic. Let's just say you've got plenty of options. Have fun.
If reliability, flexibility _and_ speed are paramount, you're
probably running VXFS+VXVM already, and long-since stopped paying
attention to this discussion. (You're probably also not even
considering low-end x86 hardware in the first place.)
> Who cares about "mainstream linux distributions"?
I'm not trying to advocate a particular OS here. Somebody asked why
one might want to use Solaris x86 instead of linux and I offered a
hypothesis. If that happened to tickle some odd sensitivity of yours,
that was not my intention, but nor is it my concern.
-n
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