The finest contribution of AIX to Unix, copied (with varying attempts at improvements) by its 90s competitors and eventually into Linux, was its jounal filesystem.
The order of magnitude improvements to fsck on bootup and overall filesytem reliability were non trivial.
SMIT was abit too non-unixy to catch on but I've always wondered in the back of my mind whether it influenced systemd...
The order of magnitude improvements to fsck on bootup and overall filesytem reliability were non trivial.
SMIT was abit too non-unixy to catch on but I've always wondered in the back of my mind whether it influenced systemd...