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Sgi IRIX nailed this, FWIW.

I would have thought some of the IRIX scheduler made it into Linux by now.




No way, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic and IRIX was so very, very advanced. IRIX hasn't been in development for almost two decades now and it's still more advanced in aspects like guaranteed I/O and software management (inst(1M))... What does that say about it and what does it say about the engineers who worked on it?


And you are right on all counts. Inst was magic. The things I did, often on live systems...


XFS is still better than any version of that ext dreck!


That's debatable. Better at losing file contents after hard reset? Maybe.


Makes me want to gather them in a room and continue the process. Irix was so very good.


Irix even had "virtual swap" which had no (or very insufficient sized) backing store for it, just to handle all the superlarge allocations from which it only uses a tiny amount.




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