Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 18:19:08 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely.de>, Don <don@calis.blacksun.org>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Journaling Message-ID: <4407.941213948@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Oct 1999 09:58:58 EDT." <19991029095858.50758@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>
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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
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