On Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 12:30:51PM -0500, Jim Wise wrote:

> _The Designn and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System_, by
> McKusick et al has a section describing LFS.  It's not very long, but it
> gives a good overview/introduction.

Hm... Things are busy at work, so I haven't yet looked at the online
references folks have sent, but I do happen to have my copy of the 4.4BSD
book with me. (I'm reading it through straight, and hadn't reached the bit
about LFS yet.)

>From my reading, it actually seems that LFS is *less* stable in some ways
than FFS, not more... My interest in soft updates / JFS is the stability
you see when, for instance, your power is dropping during the middle of a
write. LFS doesn't seem to really be aiming at the same thing as JFS or
soft updates. I don't see it as being something I can point to as being
the right thing for the place at which I'm working at the moment, whereas
soft updates or a journalled filesystem would be a big win.

Anyway, I'd be willing to help test soft update code, whenever it gets
around to where it's in a testable form under NetBSD.

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