From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 14 10:44:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.1.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33A2937B42C for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:44:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from opal (cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.123.101]) by bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA03421; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:44:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:44:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhiui Zhang X-Sender: zzhang@opal To: Bruce Petro Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Compare FBSD File System In-Reply-To: <380327008.968949972194.JavaMail.root@web302-mc.mail.com> 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 Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Bruce Petro wrote: > Could someone shoot back a brief review of how the FBSD file system compares to the old FAT system? > General information is fine, but please also cover: > 1. Efficient Disk Usage - any min file size etc like fat? > 2. Any disk compression advisable or even needed? > 3. Any disk size limits? I believe I've seen some say there are > limits in the size disk you can use, but others seemed to > reply and say that that was old limits. > 4. Other than speed, any difference in how FBSD works with > ATA -vs- SCSI (eg: size limits differences) There is a good book: The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message