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Date:      Sun, 3 Oct 1999 01:15:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Rach <rachael@skyinet.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: questions for freebsd
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910030110500.6368-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <001101bf0d67$c8aae9e0$2c09a2d0@rachael>

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On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Rach wrote:

> Questions on freeBSD's file system:
> 1. what file system does freeBSD support?

UFS, NFS, msdosfs, cd9660+rockridge, NTFS, EXT2FS and more.

> 2.  Is there a unique file system developed for it? If yes, can you 
> describe the file system in detail??
> 3. What about disk structure?can you also describe in detail?

The 'native' filesystem is UFS,

For questions 2 and 3 you'll want to purchase
"The design and implementation of the 4.4 BSD operating system"
ISBN 0-201-54979-4

It will answer your questions and a lot more.

> what were the design goals of the developers of freebsd?
> what was it designed to be and why???

FreeBSD was designed from the ground up to be useful for every
situation it is used in.

-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
Wintelcom systems administrator and programmer
   - http://www.wintelcom.net/ [bright@wintelcom.net]




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