From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 13 14:24:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA10719 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 14:24:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lucy.bedford.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA10693 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 14:23:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listread@lucy.bedford.net) Received: (from listread@localhost) by lucy.bedford.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA01539; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 17:09:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from listread) Message-Id: <199806132109.RAA01539@lucy.bedford.net> Subject: Re: The Operating system FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <000001bd96fe$5c13c120$fe9e45cf@nate> from Sm0ke at "Jun 13, 98 03:06:22 pm" To: sm0ke@mindspring.com (Sm0ke) Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 17:09:03 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-no-archive: yes Reply-to: djv@bedford.net From: CyberPeasant X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sm0ke wrote: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Hello, I'm writing a Research Paper on some type of Operating system and I > hose to write it on FreeBSD, now I was wondering What type of Filing system > it uses, like DOS uses a Fat or Fat32 filing system. Could You please answer > that question for me ?? (Or write my paper for me, that would be GREAT :) > j/k :P But Please send me mail back stating what type of filing system it > has. > Mostly BSD uses the UFS (unix file system), also called the ffs or "Fast File System". It is described in detail in most any textbook on Unix. It is also described in the paper by McKusick, Joy, Leffler and Fabry, "A Fast File System for UNIX", which ships with the CDROM of FreeBSD. Contact me off list if you would like a copy, and don't have it. Dave -- http://www.microsoft.com/security: `Microsoft Windows NT Server is the most secure network operating system available.' Don Quixote: `You are mistaken, Sancho.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message