From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 3 0:57: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD0E614D8D for ; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 00:56:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA21935; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 01:15:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 01:15:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Rach Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: questions for freebsd In-Reply-To: <001101bf0d67$c8aae9e0$2c09a2d0@rachael> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Rach wrote: > Questions on freeBSD's file system: > 1. what file system does freeBSD support? UFS, NFS, msdosfs, cd9660+rockridge, NTFS, EXT2FS and more. > 2. Is there a unique file system developed for it? If yes, can you > describe the file system in detail?? > 3. What about disk structure?can you also describe in detail? The 'native' filesystem is UFS, For questions 2 and 3 you'll want to purchase "The design and implementation of the 4.4 BSD operating system" ISBN 0-201-54979-4 It will answer your questions and a lot more. > what were the design goals of the developers of freebsd? > what was it designed to be and why??? FreeBSD was designed from the ground up to be useful for every situation it is used in. -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Wintelcom systems administrator and programmer - http://www.wintelcom.net/ [bright@wintelcom.net] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message