Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 17:30:39 +0000 From: Artem Tepponen <tiny@onego.ru> To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Farshidoo <farshidoo@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Is LFS operational? Message-ID: <36599BBF.15FB7483@onego.ru> References: <19981123084020.26824.rocketmail@send105.yahoomail.com>
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Farshidoo wrote: > I installed FreeBSD on my computer and tried to use its LFS. > I created a file system by newlfs and mounted it by mount_lfs > commands. When I tried to touch(1) a file in that file system > it stopped and the process remained in 'D+' state. Then I > noticed that in one of man pages is written that LFS has problem > in FreeBSD. Is it right? Yes, it's broken in any *BSD now, and in 3.0-RELEASE it was removed, at least from userland. > What about FFS and its relation with UFS? Is UFS based on FFS? > If yes, what is the difference between them? You'd better to read /usr/share/doc/smm/05.fastfs/paper.ascii.gz It is about 15 years old, but FFS isn't young anyway. In short: F means Fast, so was the main problem solved by FFS. With best regards, Artem To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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