Subject: Re: LFS stability
To: Zafer Aydogan <zafer@aydogan.de>
From: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
List: current-users
Date: 08/28/2006 13:19:23
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:14:51 +0200
"Zafer Aydogan" <zafer@aydogan.de> wrote:
> Everybody defines stable differently.
> For me, LFS is stable. Stable enough to work with it everyday.
> In the beginning I had doubts aswell, so I wrote some scripts to
> generate, cp, touch and remove thousands of files and directories.
> Moved GB of files and crashed the system willfully. As everything went
> the way I expected, I was convinced to see it as stable enough for my
> purposes.
> Everybody should test it herself. Maybe someone is willing to
> benchmark it and publish the results.
>
> Zafer.
>
> ps: I'm running two machines with LFS as a root file system :)
Ok, can you please do the following:
Your HOME needs to be LFS, and /urs FFS.
$ cvs -q -d:ext:anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot co -P pkgsrc <- in your HOME
$ mkdir /usr/pkgsrc
$ mount_null ~/pkgsrc /usr/pkgsrc
$ mkdir ~/foo
$ mount_null /usr/pkgsrc ~/foo
I'm pretty sure it will crash.