Re: kern/38717: sysinst shouldn't create LFS file systems

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 11:25:03PM +0000, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR kern/38717; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>
> To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: kern/38717: sysinst shouldn't create LFS file systems
> Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 18:16:33 -0500 (CDT)
> 
>  >  Both lfs and unionfs have come a long way, and are quite usable for some.
>  
>  I enabled LFS for the first time a few days ago. My system which had 
>  around a 55+ day uptime, after a day became unstable and any process (it 
>  seemed) that wrote to my other partition (not LFS) would hang. LFS 
>  appeared to make my system unusable. I powercycled and newfs to FFS and 
>  remounted and all is well.

/usr/src on my home box has been lfs for several years now. I've not had
major problems with it.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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