From: guru@camelot.bradley.edu (Jerry Whelan) Subject: Re: Packaging Linux Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 00:21:10 GMT
lmorris@mdd.comm.mot.com (Larry Morris) writes:
-} njs@scifi.uucp (Nicholas J. Simicich) writes:
-}
-} >I personally think that another essential for mass-usage is going to
-} >be a filesystem that doesn't require sync() or fsck. This isn't an
-} >impossible task, and yes, there is a performance hit, but I don't
-} >think you are going to sell a system to the masses that they can't
-} >turn off whenever they want to.
-}
-} Let me see:
-} OS/2 : requires Shutdown
-} Windows with smartdrv: requires "smartdrv /c"
-} 386 Unixes: You bet they require sync.
-} WinNT: I expect it will need synced (if/when it ships).
However, SVR4.2, aka Destiny uses the Veritas(tm, I think)
filesystem that does not require syncing, it also does disk striping.
It can be done and it can work reasonably (I understand that
the Veritas filesystem is decent in terms of speed, however I don't
know efficient it is in terms of disk space).
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