From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 14 18:56:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-201-166.mmcable.com [65.31.201.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6003C37B419 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 18:56:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 8025 invoked by uid 100); 15 Jan 2002 02:56:40 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15427.39528.11439.547654@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 20:56:40 -0600 To: Cc: Subject: Re: Super Block In-Reply-To: <20020115120052.B8750-100000@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au> References: <20020115120052.B8750-100000@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.44 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.4-STABLE-i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wilkinson,Alex types: > Howdy Crew, Please don't cross-post questions. Either send it to -questions, or -hackers; not both at once. Generally, if you're not sure which, try -questions first, then try -hackers a few days later if you don't get an answer. > What does the SuperBlock actually do ? > Why is the SuperBlock so critical ? > > Can anyone give me a *good* summary on the purpose of the Super Block ? > And/Or any recommendations ? man fs. That will show you what's actually in the superblock, as well as a longer description. One-sentence summary of why it's important: It where you start when you want to find a file in the file system. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message