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From: mb@chantal.UUCP (Michael Burg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: ESIX Networks and X
Keywords: ESIX X
Message-ID: <303@chantal.UUCP>
Date: 7 Dec 89 18:27:05 GMT
References: <10855@megatest.UUCP> <9315@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <257cf554:235.4comp.unix.i386;1@nstar.UUCP> <1869@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Reply-To: mb@chantal.UUCP (Michael Burg)
Organization: Chantal Systems, San Diego, CA, USA
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In article <1869@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:
>In article <257cf554:235.4comp.unix.i386;1@nstar.UUCP> akcs.larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) writes:
>
>| Revision D of ESIX is due in the spring with the new fast file system which
>| is going to be faster than the Interactive file system (according to their
>| sales information and technical support). 
>
>  SCO UNIX has FFS, too. I don't know if the Desktop version has the
>security features. If it does it's a plus, but you have to turn them off
>for best performance.

	I believe that the ESIX FFS will be much faster than SCO UNIX FFS
and hopefully ISC FFS. The FFS is the true FFS from the BSD 4.2/4.3 world
(minus symbolic links). It will support the old System V directory layout
(14 characters per filename for applications that don't use ndir.h) or the
BSD directory layout (up to 255 characters per filename).
Hey, Jeff .. care to give us a update on this thing?

--Mike