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From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community"
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 08:53:24 -0500
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Larry McVoy wrote:
> 
> : how far from having working lfs we are, or does it work already? i think
> : last time i asked about xfs i was told lfs "is getting there" but wasnt
> : quite working...
> 
> LFS is a joke.  Check out the old Usenix articles on it, there is one where
> I made Berkeley publish what essentially amounts to a retraction of their
> claims.
> 
LFS did perform pretty well in my tests early on, however if someone
would
do a design of a FS (and that design would be under appropriate
licensing terms),
I am willing to implement it instead of fixing/improving LFS.

John