IBM RS/6000 unsuitable for news

Lyle Seaman lws at comm.wang.com
Fri May 10 22:56:36 AEST 1991


jackv at turnkey.tcc.com (Jack F. Vogel) writes:
>One possibility struck me, since AIX Version 3 is a 'vnoded' filesystem
>(which, alas, AIX/370 isn't) I wouldn't think it would be that hard to
>provide a SysV 1K or FFS filesystem as an option. Has anyone out there in
>6000 support thought about or considered this??

Agh! don't do that!!   First off, it would be a pain to put
a SysV filesystem under vnodes, and useless.  Do the BSD FFS.

BTW, is AIX's VM system anything like SunOS's?  Ie, no distinction
between process pages and IO pages, just one big cache...  ?

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