Subject: Re: ACL's revisited
To: None <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/25/2001 18:27:14
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> > and it probably will need new filesystem or lot of tricks (which will slow
> > down things) to have enough space for ACL data in inode
> Wojciech, the days of 0.9 VUP (=0.9 MIPS) MicroVAXen with 9MB RAM and
> 67MB MFM disks running 4.3BSD UNIX are gone for more than a decade now.

please read whats stated at www.netbsd.org just at centre.


> I think we can afford a few disk and RAM bytes and CPU cycles for some
> today state of the art features like IPv6, ACLs, ...
> don't expect that todays software will run fast on yesterdays hardware.

i DO expect. well written software will run on VAX well and will work like
rocket on pentium.
if not - it's badly coded.