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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!cyclic.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!super.zippo.com!zdc!szdc!news From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community" Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 08:53:24 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 18 Message-ID: <333A7BD4.167EB0E7@freebsd.org> References: <331BB7DD.28EC@net5.net> <5g9hjp$api@flea.best.net> <5gmb58$6jd$1@news.clinet.fi> <5gn3ig$83d@flea.best.net> <5goqrq$5ak$1@news.clinet.fi> <5hd29s$e7t@fido.asd.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37983 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6494 comp.sys.sgi.misc:29497 Larry McVoy wrote: > > : how far from having working lfs we are, or does it work already? i think > : last time i asked about xfs i was told lfs "is getting there" but wasnt > : quite working... > > LFS is a joke. Check out the old Usenix articles on it, there is one where > I made Berkeley publish what essentially amounts to a retraction of their > claims. > LFS did perform pretty well in my tests early on, however if someone would do a design of a FS (and that design would be under appropriate licensing terms), I am willing to implement it instead of fixing/improving LFS. John