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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news2.harvard.edu!fas-news.harvard.edu!course1!abrown From: abrown@course1.harvard.edu (Aaron Brown) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: NetBSD Filesystems Date: 4 Aug 1995 15:53:50 GMT Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3vtfqe$5g4@decaxp.harvard.edu> References: <1995Jul26.123455.28242@lssec.bt.co.uk> <MICHAELV.95Jul29005359@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <3ve9jk$11b8@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <MICHAELV.95Jul30182230@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <3vjcve$mah@wolfe.wimsey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: course1.harvard.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Curt Sampson (curt@cynic.portal.ca) wrote: : It is asking for trouble. If you really need fast writes on lots : of small files (i.e., for a news filesystem or something like that) : the proper thing is to use the log filesystem or something similar. : Is LFS working in NetBSD? I don't know what version NetBSD is using of the 4.4 LFS, but according to Margo Seltzer, the current LFS is pretty stable. You can get the most current code by looking at: http://www.das.harvard.edu/users/faculty/Margo_Seltzer/usenix.195.html It works on 4.4BSD, so it should be possible to get it up on NetBSD. Apparently LFS will still lose up to 30 seconds of information (like ufs) on a crash since the roll-forward daemon isn't written yet, but it shouldn't be too hard to write it. --Aaron +--------------------------------+---------------------------------------+ | * Aaron B. Brown * | "The way out is through the door. | | * Harvard University '96/7 * | How can it be that so few | | * abrown@eecs.harvard.edu * | people use it?" | +--------------------------------+---------------------------------------+