From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 12 10:38:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA25677 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 10:38:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (winter@sasami.jurai.net [207.96.1.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA25660 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 10:38:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA19694; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 13:38:05 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 13:38:04 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: adrian@virginia.edu cc: Tom , Alfred Perlstein , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LFS system? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Adrian T. Filipi-Martin wrote: > Yep, lots. Ousterhout, one of the designers of LFS, was at > Berkely. I belive the BS support was put in by his group originally. The > concept was first implemented under the SPRITE OS. It just hasn't been > maintained in the 4.4BSD's though. :-( I think it works only slightly better under Sprite than it does under 4.4. I was lucky to go an hour with LFS under Sprite. Switching to the other Sprite filesystem made the machines fairly well behaved. /* Matthew N. Dodd | A memory retaining a love you had for life winter@jurai.net | As cruel as it seems nothing ever seems to http://www.jurai.net/~winter | go right - FLA M 3.1:53 */