From: Gert Doering (gert@greenie.gold.sub.org)
Date: 03/08/93


From: gert@greenie.gold.sub.org (Gert Doering)
Subject: Re: Why not BSD-FFS? (Was: [Q] newextfs)
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1993 21:29:02 GMT

qx@shire.math.columbia.edu (Qi Xia) writes:

>>>2). BSD ufs was developed many years ago. The best technology then may
>>> not be the best today.

Well... How many years ago was Unix developed?

>>>3). BSD ufs is designed for large systems. Currently, Linux only run
>>> on PC.
>>
>>My PC today might be `larger' then large systems then. :-)

>How many users a VAX has usually ? How many on you PC ?

That's not very relevant for a Filesystem, is it? For a filesystem,
the number of files, the frequency of file changes, the size of a disk,
are far more important.

And especially the amount of storage available on today's PCs exceeds the
amount on a small VAX... I have 1.5 Gigabyte of HD space in my "small PC".

gert

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