Subject: Re: LFS documentation?
To: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pavel.cahyna@st.mff.cuni.cz>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/06/2005 00:36:00
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 12:35:53 +0100, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> Can anyone point me to some good LFS (Log-structured File System)
> documentation? I've searched Google, but it only returns some ancient
> papers.
>
> I think I understand the basics of its design and its benefits, but I'm
> not sure about e.g. its impact on disk space. Doesn't LFS require much
> more diskspace, since it keeps the entire history of your files on-disk?
A cleaning daemon (lfs_cleanerd) is often invoked to delete this history
and free space, so this shouldn't be a problem.
Bye Pavel