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Date:      Fri, 30 Jan 1998 16:23:29 -0600
From:      Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>
To:        Evan Champion <evanc@synapse.net>
Cc:        "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>, Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files options src/sys/i386/conf LINT src/sys/i386/i386 autoconf.c src/sys/kern init_main.c init_sys
Message-ID:  <19980130162329.10474@right.PCS>
In-Reply-To: <015201bd2dc9$c7e51f00$2844c00a@cello.synapse.net>; from Evan Champion on Jan 01, 1998 at 04:55:29PM -0500
References:  <015201bd2dc9$c7e51f00$2844c00a@cello.synapse.net>

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On Jan 01, 1998 at 04:55:29PM -0500, Evan Champion wrote:
> >I was supposed to.  LFS has fallen out of favor of alot of people who
> >supposedly "know."
> 
> Hum...  Considering LFS has never worked, I wonder who it fell out of favour
> with?  For almost every 4.4BSD user, it was never an option to begin with.
> Unless it fell out of favour for not working :-)
> 
> Having to wait 30 minutes for my servers to fsck sure makes LFS a pretty
> appealing idea to me, and it's really too bad that it has been shelved.  If
> there's something physically wrong with the LFS and someone has a better
> idea, that's one thing, but otherwise I hope someone is able to resurrect
> LFS soon...

Well, from what I understand of LFS, it performs best as a 'write-only'
filesystem.  You aren't really supposed to be reading from an LFS, you
should be reading from your memory cache.  From that perspective, I heard
one professor call a 64MB cache "small" for a LFS system.

Although perhaps it might be suited for news, where most data just hits 
the disk and then expires without being read?
--
Jonathan



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