Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:09:40 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: About file systems and formats Message-ID: <699607EB-57F7-4C39-B724-A4D4F053B939@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <340a29540703291325w1e81344bu5a42350b06241bce@mail.gmail.com> References: <340a29540703291325w1e81344bu5a42350b06241bce@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mar 29, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Andrew Falanga wrote: > Both drives are similar in capability. They are both 7200 rpm > drives, etc. > So what is so much different about NTFS from FFS? All sorts of things. :-) > Are the file systems > really that different that MS's system is simply dog slow, or is > the format > for FreeBSD skipping some "integrity" checks on the surface of the > drive or > whatever (this assumes that the MS install process is actually > doing this). The Windows format is probably doing a bad sector scan and testing each and every sector during the format. The Unix newfs/mkfs doesn't perform bad-sector checking, but you can invoke things like the smartmon utilities to perform disk checking later on. > Please understand, I intend only to find the answer to the question > with > this. I'm looking for starting a "war" about who's file system > rocks more > than the other. The idea of an integrity check was just > speculation between > my colleague and I because there such a speed difference in formatting > things (once windows is installed) when choosing between a "Quick > Format" or > a "Full Format". A "quick format" is the Windows equivalent of what newfs does, yes. > P.S. on a side note, but related to this, in what directories under > the > system sources will I find the source code for the FFS used by > FreeBSD, and > how are those modules structured? See: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/ufs/ufs/ ...versus other filesystems found here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/fs/ -- -Chuck
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