From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 21 11:06:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA05484 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 11:06:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA05477 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 11:06:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hod.tera.com (hod.tera.com [206.215.142.67]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id LAA21860 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 11:06:29 -0700 Received: from athena.tera.com (athena.tera.com [206.215.142.62]) by hod.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA05113; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 11:03:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline Received: (from kline@localhost) by athena.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA15188; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 11:03:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199606211803.LAA15188@athena.tera.com> Subject: Re: LFS anyone? To: black@MR.Net (Ben Black) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 11:03:23 -0700 (PDT) Cc: black@MR.Net, kline@tera.com, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199606211754.MAA15764@galileo.mr.net> from Ben Black at "Jun 21, 96 12:54:12 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Ben Black: > There is plenty of documentation about LFS in the PhD thesis of it's author. > She implemented it for 4.4BSD. I was more concerned with practical issues of > code stability and initializing an LFS partition. > > Pointers? Names, paths, sites? I'm concerned with the stability of my system! I do regular backups and have recently been doing regular fsck's since my console has been freezing at seemingly random moments. But it would be reassuring to know that my filesystem data were secure. fsck is not bulletproof... at least not on SVR4. gary