From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 21 00:55:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA21988 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:55:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA21977 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:55:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA21023; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:55:03 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd020973; Mon Sep 21 00:54:58 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA21237; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:54:43 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199809210754.AAA21237@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: DEVFS & SLICE? To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 07:54:43 +0000 (GMT) Cc: green@zone.syracuse.net, tlambert@primenet.com, peter@netplex.com.au, freebsd@timog.prestel.co.uk, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20714.906351954@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Sep 20, 98 09:25:54 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Hmm... reference to MFS working? Really? I seem to notice otherwise. For > > Probably seems that way due to insufficient gathering of evidence. > I've been using MFS on all my -current boxes for awhile and even set > the 32 minute "worldstone" record on the quad-Xeon box by sticking > /usr/src and /usr/obj entirely in the MFS (1GB of memory sure helps). > I experienced no crashes or instability that could be attributed to > MFS. The major utility of MFS is to the install process. As a result, so long as it works for the install process, it works sufficiently well for the majority of consumers. With SLICE, it fails to work for the install process. This is pretty much the basis of the issue here... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message