Subject: Re: LFS stability
To: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
From: Zafer Aydogan <zafer@aydogan.de>
List: current-users
Date: 08/28/2006 13:24:09
Ok, I'll give it a try.
Actually, I do not have such problems, because everything is lfs and
I'm not using null mounts either.

Zafer.

2006/8/28, Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>:
> On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:14:51 +0200
> "Zafer Aydogan" <zafer@aydogan.de> wrote:
>
> > Everybody defines stable differently.
> > For me, LFS is stable. Stable enough to work with it everyday.
> > In the beginning I had doubts aswell, so I wrote some scripts to
> > generate, cp, touch and remove thousands of files and directories.
> > Moved GB of files and crashed the system willfully. As everything went
> > the way I expected, I was convinced to see it as stable enough for my
> > purposes.
> > Everybody should test it herself. Maybe someone is willing to
> > benchmark it and publish the results.
> >
> > Zafer.
> >
> > ps: I'm running two machines with LFS as a root file system :)
>
> Ok, can you please do the following:
>
> Your HOME needs to be LFS, and /urs FFS.
>
> $ cvs -q -d:ext:anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot co -P pkgsrc <- in your HOME
> $ mkdir /usr/pkgsrc
> $ mount_null ~/pkgsrc /usr/pkgsrc
> $ mkdir ~/foo
> $ mount_null /usr/pkgsrc ~/foo
>
> I'm pretty sure it will crash.
>