Quality of FreeBSD

[Matthias Schuendehuette]

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Hello,

Bruce A. Mah wrote:
 >> I know the developers don't hear it often enough, but thanks for  
all you=20
 >> do.  I'm not a programmer, and I currently don't have the funds  
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 >> donate to the project, but you do have my heartfelt thanks for  
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 >> turning out my favorite OS.

 > You're welcome, and I'm sure I speak for at least a few other  
developers
 > when I say that you'd be surprised how valuable a "donation" of a few
 > kind words can be.

I'm following this thread from the start on. To add a "few kind  
words" I may report that I have three FreeBSD-5 servers (COMPAQ/HP  
ProLiant) up'n running for quite some time now (starting with 5.2.1!)  
and they act very well!! Mainly NFS and Samba servers, so their focus  
lies on filesystem space.

To be honest, I was a bit astonished how many people obviously use  
ATA-Disks in a fileserver environment. I just read an article in the  
german iX-Magazine where the author emphasizes (once again!) that ATA  
disks are *not* designed for 24*7 use (with the exception of WDs  
Raptor). Considered the weak definitions in the so called "ATA- 
standard", I can't imagine for me personal to use ATA-disks for more  
than more or less temporary storage. Especially if I earn money with  
the server in question I always heard the urgent recommendation to  
use SCSI-disk. If I compare the value of the data with the cost of a  
SCSI subsystem, there are no questions any more...

Some special kind words go to Soren Schmidt here. I never understood  
how one person could voluntary dive into this "shark basin" of ATA.  
There are no merits to earn and there seem to be always many  
"special" combinations of hardware, which don't work. A well thought  
out standard should avoid exactly that! So "Hats off" to Soren for  
his work and his boundless ability to suffer with the many complaints.

So I stay with the old FreeBSD behaviour to use proven technology[TM]  
and let the cheap toys for the Linux-kiddies. It remains true: You  
get what you pay for!
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Ciao/BSD - Matthias

Matthias Schuendehuette    <msch [at] snafu.de>, Berlin (Germany)
PGP-Key at <pgp.mit.edu> and <wwwkeys.de.pgp.net> ID: 0xDDFB0A5F

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