Comments on: Lessfs-1.1.5 is now available for download

By: Brad

Brad — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:53:37 +0000

I’m trying to install this, but when I run ./configure I keep getting the error message:

checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0… ./configure: line 7206: /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig: is a directory
no
checking for DEPS… configure: error: The pkg-config script could not be found or is too old. Make sure it
is in your PATH or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable to the full
path to pkg-config.

I have added the variable paths as follows:

# export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
# export PKG_CONFIG=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
# export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:${PATH}
# export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib

I can run “pkg-config –modversion fuse” or “tokyocabinet” from anywhere in the filesystem and get the correct feedback. Any help is greatly appreciated.

By: Hubert Kario

Hubert Kario — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:07:47 +0000

I’ve noticed that the help message in lessfs binary is quite outdated (it reports its version as 0.9.9).

I’m referring to the message printed by
lessfs –help
command

By: wxp

wxp — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:36:18 +0000

Hi, I find in “Lib_tc.c”, the funcion “dnode_bname_to_inode” doing nothing, becase in if (dbvalue), the last sentence is filestat = NULL!
so I want to know where this is a bug or other purpose?

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:00:26 +0000

Been told that you need MAX_THEADS to be 5 * the number of cores in the system this is a big difference to take in consideration since last version.

By: maru

maru — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:36:26 +0000

How must memory have you assigned to CACHESIZE? What is MAX_THREADS?
Lessfs-1.1.5 needs memory (128MB, more is better) and a number of threads to perform.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:10:33 +0000

Just tried to to go from 1.0.8 to 1.1.5 on one machine, performance when scping stuff from another machine into lessfs went from 60MB/s to 8MB/s.

Same lessfs.cfg for both, is there some new knob that needs twiddling?