On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 10:30:39PM -0500, David Young wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 11:25:05AM +1000, jeremias@optushome.com.au wrote:
> > I'm not sure about lfs, but from what I can tell it lacks some stability.
> > My question is more is there something that can be used on netbsd?
> > (or ported for that matter) 
> 
> Some people believe LFS is still unstable.  Other people believe it
> is stable.  Is there any evidence one way or the other?

I think there is evidence for both. I use LFS on NetBSD 3.0_RC5 and it is
stable. But when I updated to 3_STABLE, LFS crashed soon and corrupted the
filesystem in such a way that fsck_lfs dumped core. The unreliability of
fsck_lfs is a strong argument against it, I think.

Pavel