From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Nov 1 2:40:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34FAD14A0B for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 02:40:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id LAA20349; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 11:36:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Jan Pechanec Cc: Greg Lehey , Bernd Walter , Don , Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Journaling In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 01 Nov 1999 11:11:06 +0100." Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 11:36:56 +0100 Message-ID: <20347.941452616@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message , Jan Pechanec writes: > > Vahalia [UNIX Internals, Prentice-Hall] says that FFS is an >original BSD filesystem and UFS is rewritten FFS for vnode layer. > Well, who do you trust, Kirk & the source, or Vahalia ? Poul-Henning >On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >>...Whereas in *BSD "UFS" refers to the unix sematics layer (directory >>manipulation and all that) and "FFS" refers to the underlying storage >>object manager (which only understands inodes and their layout.) -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message