On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 10:51:30 +0100, Geert Hendrickx wrote:

> Ok, but still I think it's a pitty that NetBSD includes multiple
> filesystems without documentation on which to use for what purpose.  
> 
> e.g. I mostly use FFS+softdep on "almost read-only" filesystems like
> /usr, and fully async FFS on filesystems with temporary and/or
> recoverable data like /tmp, /usr/obj, /usr/pkgsrc, ... (I just newfs
> them in case of a crash, no fsck'ing these...).  But what about e.g.

I use LFS on such filesystems. No need to newfs at each crash - the
recovery is instantaneous. Also, such filesystems are often written to,
and LFS is much faster than FFS+async when writing. But beware, I'm using
LFS on these for about half a year and already got one crash and one
deadlock. For desktop use, this is not a big problem, but I wouldn't use
LFS on servers.

> /home and /var ?  Would LFS be appropriate for those?  (as it was

I would use also FFS+softdeps for these, somebody reported FS corruption
with LFS, which would be highly undesirable for /home.

Bye	Pavel