From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 18 3:17:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rivendell.mel.vet.com.au (rivendell.mel.vet.com.au [203.103.154.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF86C37B907 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 03:17:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lodea@vet.com.au) Received: (from lodea@localhost) by rivendell.mel.vet.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA03840; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 22:14:35 +1100 (EST) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 22:14:35 +1100 From: "Lachlan O'Dea" To: Usov Alexander Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some General Questions Message-ID: <20000218221434.D3151@vet.com.au> Mail-Followup-To: Usov Alexander , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <38AA80DF.899DD275@ups.kiev.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.3i In-Reply-To: <38AA80DF.899DD275@ups.kiev.ua>; from usov@ups.kiev.ua on Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 12:50:07PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 12:50:07PM +0200, Usov Alexander wrote: > Hi everybody! > > I have got few general questions about FreeBSD. > Few days ago I read throught historical BSD documentation > (/usr/share/doc/...) and I saw here, that 4.4BSD has > LFS (as I understand it's equal to modern JFS), but in > FreeBSD I saw nothing like that. What happend to it? > It's as fast as FFS but you can turn power off, and nothing > happends to filesystem. I'm not very knowledgeable on this topic, but I've seen some the discussions. Basically LFS hasn't worked for a long time and unless someone wants to do the work themselves, this won't change. There was some talk that soft updates might be enhanced to remove the need for fsck, which would give you the benefits of a journaled file system. If you want any more information, I strongly suggest you search the mail archives. This has been discussed a number of times. > And one more, how close is FreeBSD to POSIX, and does FreeBSD > support SystemV TLI? I'm not really qualified to answer, but FreeBSD seems to have pretty complete POSIX support. Don't know about TLI, but I'd be surprised if FreeBSD supports it. I don't think I've ever seen a software package that required TLI. -- Lachlan O'Dea Computer Associates Pty Ltd Webmaster Vet - Anti-Virus Software http://www.vet.com.au/ "Judge me by my size, do you? And well you should not. for my ally is the Force." - Yoda, Jedi Master To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message