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Date:      Fri, 18 Feb 2000 22:14:35 +1100
From:      "Lachlan O'Dea" <lodea@vet.com.au>
To:        Usov Alexander <usov@ups.kiev.ua>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Some General Questions
Message-ID:  <20000218221434.D3151@vet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <38AA80DF.899DD275@ups.kiev.ua>; from usov@ups.kiev.ua on Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 12:50:07PM %2B0200
References:  <38AA80DF.899DD275@ups.kiev.ua>

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On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 12:50:07PM +0200, Usov Alexander wrote:
> Hi everybody!
> 
>   I have got few general questions about FreeBSD.
> Few days ago I read throught historical BSD documentation 
> (/usr/share/doc/...) and I saw here, that 4.4BSD has 
> LFS (as I understand it's equal to modern JFS), but in 
> FreeBSD I saw nothing like that. What happend to it?
> It's as fast as FFS but you can turn power off, and nothing
> happends to filesystem.

I'm not very knowledgeable on this topic, but I've seen some the
discussions. Basically LFS hasn't worked for a long time and unless
someone wants to do the work themselves, this won't change.

There was some talk that soft updates might be enhanced to remove the
need for fsck, which would give you the benefits of a journaled file
system.

If you want any more information, I strongly suggest you search the mail
archives. This has been discussed a number of times.

>   And one more, how close is FreeBSD to POSIX, and does FreeBSD
> support SystemV TLI?

I'm not really qualified to answer, but FreeBSD seems to have pretty
complete POSIX support. Don't know about TLI, but I'd be surprised if
FreeBSD supports it. I don't think I've ever seen a software package
that required TLI.

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