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1. Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 06-Apr-2018 15:22:57 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

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   "Although Helix Server does not recommend any specific hardware configuration or filesystem, Linux servers are generally fastest (owing to Linux’s asynchronous directory updating), but they may have poor recovery if power is cut at the wrong time."
   
   What's the comparison to here? #ZFS? #NTFS? !sysadmin !ubuntu !vcs
   
   For context (although I don't think it helps, perhaps I'm wrong): https://nu.federati.net/url/123927
   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 06-Apr-2018 15:44:11 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

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     I was bemused because I had only heard mention of Linux and Windows support, but it turns out we do support FreeBSD 10...but not 11 for some reason: https://www.perforce.com/downloads/helix-core-p4d
     
     and FreeBSD 7 for some reason...
   • @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Friday, 06-Apr-2018 16:11:05 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se

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     @musicman maybe that still refers to ext2 filesystems & the lengthy fsck after a power cut
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