From: dfr@ioc.co.uk (Doug Rabson) Subject: Re: 386bsd, linux: which runs more out of the box? Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1993 10:55:48 GMT
In article <C4M2Kt.1HI@sugar.neosoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> In article <1p3hfg$geh@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
> > While that may be true, I'm inclined to point out that the most solid
> > *I've* ever seen is IBM's JFS under AIX 3.
>
> I've been told before that the AIX file system is incredible. Problem is,
> you have to run AIX to get it.
The AIX filesystem is great when it comes to reliability but it is a
bit wasteful of disk space. The minimum allocation unit is 4k so it
wastes a lot of space when you have loads of small files (like my news
partition :-( )