Well, the reason why I wanted to use LFS on my /usr is that I wanted to
avoid fsck's, which take a while on my 360 GB fs.  BTW, do I have to do
anything special to enable softdep under NetBSD, or does it work by
default?  (I am a mainframe guy...  don't know *that* much about NetBSD).

Peace...  Sridhar

Original Message from Bernd Sieker:
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On 07.12.01, 00:24:38, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
>
> I have never had problems with my LFS partition on a macppc machine,
> which I use for a CVS repository. But I've also never gone to great
> lengths to stress it. (Like, say, filling it up all the way, which,
> though it is worked around in the code in -current, at least
> conceptually makes lfs_cleanerd's life *extremely* hard.)

My serious problems with LFS date back to 1.4R or something, way before
1.5, when some work had been done to make it work again at all, mostly out
of curiosity. Back then there was no correcting fsck_lfs at all, and LFS
developed errors during normal use quite often, meaning I had to newfs_lfs
the partition every other day.

Then in 1.5 (and 1.5.1, too, iirc) there were some problems with the
cleanerd leaking memory, but since 1.5.2 it's been mostly been running
fine. I feel no pressing need to use it for /usr (except that it might be
nice to be able to skip fsck after a crash, but then again, NetBSD doesn't
really crash that often :)), but it's really nice for pkgsrc.

-- 
Bernd Sieker

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		-- Perry Metzger