On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Andy R wrote:

> > 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).
>
> Nah, you have to add it in your /etc/fstab as an
> option .

Cool.  Done.  Appears to work.

> Mainframe guy? Using NetBSD? I didn't know that it
> worked under VM on an S/390.

It doesn't.............. yet *evil grin*.

I'm consolidating support for IBM mainframes under GCC into one port right
now (it's all over the place right now), and then I'm going to port the
NetBSD kernel.  NetBSD on EBCDIC!!

Peace...  Sridhar