Subject: Re: LFS as root File-System.
To: Andrea <practive@practive.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/12/2001 21:43:20
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:58:18PM +0000, Andrea wrote:
> Hi All!
> 
> I'm trying to mount an LFS filesystem as root.
> I have formatted a Raidframe Volume with lfs an then, after the boot
> from a little 'ufs' partition, i tried to mount it as root.
> But it hangs immediatly after booting the kernel with this message:
> 
> boot device: raid1
> root on raid1a dumps on raid1b
> root file system type: lfs
> 
> I'm using the latest snapshot 20010526-1.5V and included GENERIC kernel
> with raid enabled.
> Of course the same volume with ffs on it works.
> Is there any options on kernel or device parameter on LFS in order to
> use it as root?

LFS doesn't work too well in -current these days; especially mmap doesn't
behave rigth. I suspect this could affect demand-paged programs as well.
shared libs definitively won't work.

This is being worked out ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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