and that he does alot of. he has this server virtual raid so the same data is on 16 stripe raids, which are translated into smb by a dif server. remember i am the he dude. my grandma is considering signing a contract to the school to set it. it is rather redundent.
Mike Miller wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, steve ulrich wrote:
>> i think the real irony in this thread is that ubuntu makes the dogs
>> breakfast of linux more like freebsd in its operational elegance.
>>
>> fwiw - there are several things about freebsd's kernel which are
>> definitely nicer than what's available on linux. notably in the
>> networking realm.
>>
>> - 10GE optimizations w/TCP segment offload (linux might have this now)
>> - SCTP - admittedly of niche interest, but this just works on freebsd and doesn't DIY brain surgery
>> - soft updates for filesystem updates
>> - pluggable network stack w/netgraph
>> - kernel queues
>> - accept filters
>> - partial support for pf (which is just good enough to keep you from going to openbsd given how nice pf is.)
> I have to admit that I don't know what those things are. Would they
> affect user experience? If so, how? It sounds like maybe some of the
> differences affect network speed, but I guess that wouln't make much
> difference for most users unless they were moving large files or
> collections of files on a NFS.
> Mike
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