Re: kern/38717: sysinst shouldn't create LFS file systems

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/38717; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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Subject: Re: kern/38717: sysinst shouldn't create LFS file systems
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 21:55:18 +0200

 On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 11:25:03PM +0000, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR kern/38717; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: kern/38717: sysinst shouldn't create LFS file systems
 > Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 18:16:33 -0500 (CDT)
 > 
 >  >  Both lfs and unionfs have come a long way, and are quite usable for some.
 >  
 >  I enabled LFS for the first time a few days ago. My system which had 
 >  around a 55+ day uptime, after a day became unstable and any process (it 
 >  seemed) that wrote to my other partition (not LFS) would hang. LFS 
 >  appeared to make my system unusable. I powercycled and newfs to FFS and 
 >  remounted and all is well.
 
 /usr/src on my home box has been lfs for several years now. I've not had
 major problems with it.
 
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 Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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