Re: LFS support ?

[Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@cse.iitd.ernet.in>]

On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, eric jackson wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Does OpenBSD have LFS (Log File System) support ?  I have NetBSD on my
> > machine, and it has LFS support: I was wondering if there was some way I
> > could make OpenBSD also share the data on that LFS partition.
> > 
> > TIA.
> > Rakhesh
> > 
> > PS: In case it doesn't have, are there any plans underway for it ?  I
> > mean, as far as my knowledge goes, Open and NetBSD are pretty close, and
> > so if the Net guys have it, Open could also get it ... ?
> > 
> 
> No, OpenBSD does not support it currently as it really isn't much of a
> useful fs. But I plan to have support for it back in the tree sometime,
> probobly not before 2.8. It died because its uselessness and the fact
> nobody used it. FreeBSD just completely stripped it from its tree, ours
> just got stale.
> 

In case you don't mind, could you elaborate a bit more:  I don't know much
abt the technical details, but I found the concept of LFS very
interesting (I had read up some articles that I got from the NetBSD
page).  I thought it must be a very useful fs to have.  Why then do you
say that it is not a very useful fs, and that it died out because of its
uselessness ?  

Rakhesh