>> EXT2FS (works correctly):
 >>      0 trtr>touch file0; sleep 5; make file3    
 >>      cat file0 > file1
 >>      cat file1 > file2
 >>      cat file2 > file3
 >>      0 trtr> 
 >> 
 >> But when I remove sleep 5 it sometimes fails:

> Not surprising, because ext2fs doesn't have sub-second time resolution
> (at last in the NetBSD implementation - I don't know if this has been added
> to linux since I wrote this code).

Ok, problems with ext2fs are easily accountable but what about LFS?

Does anybody maintain it? Now for my daily jobs, when make is one of
the most often used program, LFS seems painful :-(

-- 
Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.