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 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ