From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 14 16:46:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freeside.fc.net (freeside.fc.net [207.170.70.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAFCD37B422 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 16:46:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jdunham@localhost) by freeside.fc.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id SAA96417; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 18:46:50 -0500 (CDT) From: Jerry Dunham Message-Id: <200009142346.SAA96417@freeside.fc.net> Subject: Re: Advanced File System on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <44pum6prw7.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> from Lowell Gilbert at "Sep 14, 2000 05:47:52 pm" To: lowell@world.std.com (Lowell Gilbert) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 18:46:50 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, gligor@math.uvt.ro (Lucian Gligor) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Lowell Gilbert babbled: > From: Lowell Gilbert > Date: 14 Sep 2000 17:47:52 -0400 > gligor@math.uvt.ro (Lucian Gligor) writes: > > > I have red in the Compaq Tru64 UNIX AdvFS Administration about > > the file system called "Advanced File System", which is the default > > file system for the Compaq Tru64 UNIX (formely DIGITAL UNIX) operating > > system. This file system has several advantages from the traditional > > UNIX file system. > > Please let me know if there is a commercial vendor which implements > > Advanced File System on FreeBSD !! > > No, there isn't. However, most of the supposedly unique features of > AdvFS are available with FreeBSD. As far as I recall, the ones that > aren't supported are: > - "never" needing an fsck after a crash > - graphical user interface for administration > - undelete > > Many features attributed to AdvFS by its documentation are supported > in FreeBSD by system components other than the filesystem. That "undelete" feature sure would be nice. Some of us stupid people need it far too often. It's the one thing I REALLY liked better about the file systems used by Microsoft and Atari. *sigh* -- Jerry Dunham FreeBSD http://www.dunham.org jdunham@fc.net jerry@dunham.org (512)335-0674 (H) E Pluribus Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message