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Date:      Thu, 28 Feb 2002 06:56:00 +0100
From:      Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Are UFS and FFS the same thing ?
Message-ID:  <20020228055600.GB3311@raggedclown.net>
In-Reply-To: <15485.36390.427112.610849@guru.mired.org>
References:  <72026617@toto.iv> <15485.36390.427112.610849@guru.mired.org>

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On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 07:55:50PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote:
> Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> types:
> > Is UFS an outgrowth of FFS ?
> 
> The other way 'round.
> 
> If you watch the FreeBSD lists long enough, you'll eventually here
> grumbling about needing to change all the userland names from
> fooufsbar to fooffsbar, and then nobody will do anything, because it's
> an awful lot of work for a purely cosmetic change.
> 
Oh, then I am historically confused here.
FFS is not the "Berkely Fast File System" of yesteryear then ?

As for changing the names, sure;y you could do that in a perl --oops,
sorry Mike, a python script :)

-- 
Regards
   Cliff Sarginson -- <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>

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