Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Adeos nanokernel for Linux kernel | Date | Wed, 5 Jun 2002 06:08:57 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 05 June 2002 05:56, J Sloan wrote: > Daniel Phillips wrote: > > >If I recall correctly, XFS makes an attempt to provide such realtime > >guarantees, or at least the Solaris version does. > > > When did Solaris ever support xfs? > > > However, the operating > >system must be able to provide true realtime guarantees in order for the > >filesystem to provide them, and I doubt that the combination of XFS and > >Solaris can do that. > > > no, but the combination of xfs and irix has ^^^^ Heh, I can only protest that Oxymoron also missed that thinko..
> made a lot of folks happy - and xfs/linux is coming along nicely as > well...
Improving the average latency of systems is a worthy goal, and there's no denying that 'sorta realtime' has its place, however it's no substitute for the real thing. A soft realtime system screws up only on occasion, but - bugs excepted - a hard realtime system *never* does.
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