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Old 22nd November 2008
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Originally Posted by Kuro5hin
FreeBSD efficiently used SMP configurations now, supporting more than two processors, and borrowed filesystem journaling from Darwin.
I'm pretty sure that FreeBSD's SMP was borrowed from BSD/OS, not Darwin. This can be seen right from the opening paragraph of this paper.

One of the reasons that it took so long for FreeBSD to have journaled UFS was because of SoftUpdates, which sort of gives the effect of journaling. Thus, it wasn't really needed for some time.

This article was also posted here very recently. Maybe the mailing lists are getting it, too?
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Last edited by snes-addict; 22nd November 2008 at 01:34 AM. Reason: forgot to finish statement