Comment by umaguma
10 years ago
Your comment begs the question: Do you fall for the marketing hype? And if not, then do you think you should keep quiet about stuff that works?
At the time, IMHO, PG was indeed smart to be one of the few using FreeBSD as opposed whatever the majority were using.
But he has admitted they struggled with setting up RAID. They were probably not too experienced with FreeBSD. I am sure they had their fair share of troubles.
PG's essays and his taste in software are great and the software he writes may be elegant, but that does not necessarily mean it is robust.
Best filesystem I have experienced on UNIX is tmpfs. Backing up to permanent storage is still error-prone, even in 2015.
> At the time, IMHO, PG was indeed smart to be one of the few using FreeBSD as opposed whatever the majority were using.
Why was it a better OS choice at the time than, say, Solaris or IRIX or BSDI?
I would have if it served my needs, because those others required special hardware and/or hefty licensing costs.