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From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: LFS problems under FreeBSD 2.1
Date: 15 Apr 1996 21:01:16 -0400
Organization: Panix
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In article <4kre3q$7el@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>anneb@pooh.tec.army.mil (Anne Brink) writes:
>
>>I'm trying, for a term project, to play with LFS under FreeBSD. I'm
>>not getting very far, since I'm having trouble with my kernel panicking
>>pretty much directly after I do a mount_lfs of the partition.
>
>Sorry, LFS (and most of the other nifty 4.4BSD file systems) are
>currently unsupported. It's only that they still _compile_, but they
>don't work.
You could, however, try using them under NetBSD.
LFS... well, probably works well enough for research. It could stand an
integration of the Lite2 code. The others have actually seen use and some
improvements, particularly NULLFS and its kin, although they aren't all
completely stable.
--
Thor Lancelot Simon tls@panix.COM
If you're looking for a patsy, why not try the entire human race?