Xref: utzoo news.sysadmin:3733 news.software.b:7706 comp.unix.aix:5017 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!bu.edu!wang!comm.wang.com!lws From: lws@comm.wang.com (Lyle Seaman) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.software.b,comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: IBM RS/6000 unsuitable for news Message-ID: <1991May10.125636.25812@comm.wang.com> Date: 10 May 91 12:56:36 GMT References: <1991May07.160042.28634@turnkey.tcc.com> Organization: Wang Labs, Platform Comms. Lines: 16 jackv@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... ? -- Lyle 508 967 2322 lws@wang.com Wang Labs, Lowell, MA, USA