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8.Dd ""
9.Dt MOUNT_LFS 8
10.Os BSD 4.4
11.Sh NAME
12.Nm mount_lfs
13.Nd mount a log-structured file system
14.Sh SYNOPSIS
15.Nm mount_lfs
16.Op Fl dns
17.Op Fl o Ar options
18.Ar special
19.Ar node
20.Sh DESCRIPTION
21The
22.Nm mount_lfs
23command attaches a log-structured file system
24.Ar special
25device on to the file system tree at the point
26.Ar node .
27In addition, the
28.Xr lfs_cleanerd 8
29utility is invoked to clean the file system periodically.
30.Pp
31This command is normally executed by
32.Xr mount 8
33at boot time.
34.Pp
35The options are as follows:
36.Bl -tag -width Ds
37.It Fl d
38Run
39.Xr lfs_cleanerd 8
40in debug mode.
41.It Fl o
42Options are specified with a
43.Fl o
44flag followed by a comma separated string of options.
45See the
46.Xr mount 8
47man page for possible options and their meanings.
48.It Fl n
49Don't start
50.Xr lfs_cleanerd 8
51on the file system.
52.It Fl s
53Cause
54.Xr lfs_cleanerd 8
55to read data in small chunks when cleaning the file system.
56.El
57.Sh SEE ALSO
58.Xr mount 2 ,
59.Xr unmount 2 ,
60.Xr fstab 5 ,
61.Xr lfs_cleanerd 8 ,
62.Xr mount 8
63.sp
64.Rs
65.%A Ousterhout and Douglis
66.%D 1989
67.%T "Beating the I/O Bottleneck: A Case for Log-structured File Systems"
68.%J "Operating Systems Review"
69.%V Vol. 23
70.%N No. 1
71.%P pp. 11-27
72.%O "also available as Technical Report UCB/CSD 88/467"
73.Re
74.Rs
75.%A Rosenblum and Ousterhout
76.%D 1991
77.%T "The Design and Implementation of a Log-Structured File System"
78.%J "ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review"
79.%V Vol. 25
80.%N No. 5
81.Re
82.Rs
83.%A Seltzer
84.%D 1992
85.%T "File System Performance and Transaction Support"
86.%B "PhD Thesis, University of California, Berkeley"
87.%O "also available as Technical Report UCB/ERL M92"
88.Re
89.Rs
90.%A Seltzer, Bostic, McKusick and Staelin
91.%D 1993
92.%T "An Implementation of a Log-Structured File System for UNIX"
93.%J "Proc. of the Winter 1993 USENIX Conf."
94.%P pp. 315-331
95.Re
96.Sh HISTORY
97The
98.Nm mount_lfs
99function first appeared in 4.4BSD.
100