Subject: Re: LFS documentation?
To: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be>
From: Wouter Klouwen <dublet@dublet.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/06/2005 10:59:56
Geert Hendrickx(ghen@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be) said 2005.01.06 10:51:30 +0000:
> Ok, but still I think it's a pitty that NetBSD includes multiple
> filesystems without documentation on which to use for what purpose.
Well, people who use NetBSD are supposed to know what filesystems are good
for what usage. ;)
> But what about e.g.
> /home and /var ? Would LFS be appropriate for those? (as it was
> designed to be crash-proof and quite performant on write-intensitive
> filesystems)
Well, the official view by the NetBSD foundation is probably you should use
FFS and softdeps, although with some people softdeps invariably causes
kernel panics for some reasons. LFS should be your choice for any partition
which reaches no more than 70% usage, otherwise you get panics, disk
trashing and whatnot.
> Any experiences?
I still use FFS without softdeps, and just curse when I have to fsck.
> GH
--Wouter