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Re: Interest from the FreeBSD camp

To: "Nathan J. Mehl" <memory@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Interest from the FreeBSD camp
From: Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 18:18:57 +0200 (CEST)
Cc: "Jeffrey B. Layton" <jeffrey.b.layton@xxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20010613113111.B8330@blank.org>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Nathan J. Mehl wrote:

> In the immortal words of Jeffrey B. Layton (jeffrey.b.layton@xxxxxxxx):
> > 
> > Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Solaris use a Veritas
> > filesystem as the default filesystem (I know HP does).
> > If that is the case, then getting rid of royalities to Veritas
> > but still charging the same per license would increase
> > their profits. Sure sounds like motivation to me :)
> 
> Nope.  By default, Sun uses plain-ol-UFS.  (As of 2.8, they added
> metadata logging.)  VXFS is an extra, and rather pricey, option.

Solaris 8 comes with UFS. But I still don't feel comfortable wandering and
configurating the system.

Seth


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