From owner-freebsd-fs Fri Oct 29 9:22: 2 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 0795E14DA1 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 09:21:52 -0700 (PDT) (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 SAA04409; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 18:19:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Greg Lehey Cc: Bernd Walter , Don , Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Journaling In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 29 Oct 1999 09:58:58 EDT." <19991029095858.50758@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 18:19:08 +0200 Message-ID: <4407.941213948@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <19991029095858.50758@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey writes: >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. ...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