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Date:      Fri, 29 Oct 1999 09:58:58 -0400
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely.de>, Don <don@calis.blacksun.org>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Journaling
Message-ID:  <19991029095858.50758@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19991027193200.A52144@cicely7.cicely.de>; from Bernd Walter on Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 07:32:00PM %2B0200
References:  <19991027095431.45462@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910271300460.35360-100000@calis.blacksun.org> <19991027193200.A52144@cicely7.cicely.de>

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On Wednesday, 27 October 1999 at 19:32:00 +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
> The number of partitions has nothing to do with with the filesystem you use.
> FFS is not a partitionsheme but a filesystem.
> UFS is a historic filesystem on which FFS is based.

Well, in fact they're the same thing.  The *old* name is FFS (Fast
File System).  When System V.4 was released, they adopted FFS as the
standard file system and called it the UNIX File System.

Greg
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