Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: XFS and journalling filesystems | From | Shalon Wood <> | Date | 24 May 1999 04:53:46 -0500 |
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"Jeff Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.com> writes:
> You should wait to see just how serious they really are about this, and how > much of it they are really going to give you. Another Unix File system > (yawn yawn yawn) with journalling (which means it will be **SLOW**). I > would vote for the ext3 project to continue. It appears they were reacting > to us. Here's a trace of their accesses to our website (obtained via > reverse subdomain trap) on the day we announmced open sourcing FENRIS and > giving it to you guys to have fun with (no strings attached). Not a > coincidence. Enjoy. It looks like a commercial ploy to "hijack" linux and > buoy up their legacy Irix products. To most big, old guard, commercial Unix > companies, Linux is the "kiss of death" to their bloated, overpriced, and > proprietary solutions. We are bringing Linux Novell's installed base of > 8,000,000 NetWare Servers as a potential target market for Linux to > penetrate. How many Irix nodes are there? 40,000 maybe?
Actually, I think you are wrong here. I suspect that they dn't think they can keep IRIX going much longer outside of a very narrow field -- NT killed their lock on graphics. If they start pushing NT, they'll kill their hardware, too, more than likely. *BUT*, if they push Linux, then a) they'll likely sell more hardware and b) they are getting a lot more people out there who aren't afraid of Unix. Both of these are good things, from both their and our points of view.
Shalon
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