Subject: Re: experiments with lfs
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubertf@gmx.de>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 04/10/2005 16:30:18
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On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 02:04:53AM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> In article <20050406023846.GJ21848@bcd.geek.com.au> you wrote:
> > Until then, it seemed to behave flawlessly, and certainly worked
> > better than the last time I tried it.  Before filling it, I unmounted
> > it and ran a fsck_lfs, which came up clean (though it took a *very*
> > long time and seemed to be heavily CPU bound, I'll try and do some prof=
iling
> > of it at some point later to figure out where its spinning).
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> Wasn't the point of LFS to not require a time-consuming fsck-run?

Note he isn't running fsck in order to boot, he's running it to see how=20
well the file system is doing. We will always need fsck tools for all file=
=20
systems. Life happens and we'll need to be able to cope.

One main hope though with LFS and with journaled file systems is that you=
=20
will only rarely need these fsck tools. :-)

Take care,

Bill

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