From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 19:38:21 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 31, Issue 9 In-Reply-To: <20060523022654.GF48088@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20060519023529.GD17801@bitmover.com> <20060523022654.GF48088@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: <20060523023821.GE20079@bitmover.com> On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:56:54AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > Hmm. You know about the UFS2 work that Kirk did in FreeBSD over the > last few years, right? Here's part of the last commit he did. You're right but I already sent out mail correcting that statement. But the point I was really trying to make had little to do with UFS, I was simply trying to establish my credentials as a kernel hack (once upon a time). Because without being one, making comments on all the various Unices out there is pretty lame. I'm perfectly happy to say Kirk is still kicking butt on UFS, in fact, I'm ecstatic about that, I'm the guy who beat him up when he didn't defend UFS at the LFS presentation (UFS is a much much nicer file system and it's all about the allocation policy. LFS doesn't really have one. Works great for writing, sucks for reading. Which do you do more?). So go Kirk! But the point being made was that I've been around the block, I've worked on and/or looked hard at many different Unix variants and I'm not at all sad to see them go. Once upon a time it would have been great if SunOS 4.x had been open source, it was a much (and I mean MUCH) nicer place to start than *BSD or Linux. Much nicer. But time has marched on and these days I think that SunOS wouldn't be as viable. And it's the only one that I think would have had a chance and I work daily on all of them, we support our product on AIX IRIX Tru/64 HP-UX Solaris SCO MacOS X as well as all the free Unix variants. Our build cluster is 35 platforms and we get to deal with all the issues associated with all of them. If I could reduce that down to Linux, Windows, MacOS and Solaris I'd be happier. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com