Subject: Re: Log structured filesystem
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Aaron Brown <abrown@eecs.harvard.edu>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/30/1996 18:44:22
On Sun, 30 Jun 1996, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jun 1996 02:02:11 -0600 (MDT) 
>  Bruce Allen Ediger <metamatic!ediger@uucp-1.csn.net> wrote:
> 
>  > I'm running NetBSD 1.1 on a SPARCStation IPC, ROM Rev 2.9. I've tried
>  > to put an LFS filesystem on a SUN0207 disk (<CONNER, CP30200  SUN0207, 423
> 4>).
> 
>  > [ LFS problems ]
> 
> Unfortunately, the LFS in NetBSD just doesn't work, and never has really 
> worked.  I've heard that Margo has newer code available, but to my 
> knowledge, none of it has been incorporated into NetBSD.

Margo has been working on LFS recently, and it seems to be running nicely
on BSDI. I'm trying to get her to port it to NetBSD, so it is possible 
that we might have a working version sometime this summer, but 
its up to her so no guarantees...

--Aaron