From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 27 21:56: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post-20.mail.nl.demon.net (post-20.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 936B037B400 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 21:56:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-20.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #2) id 16gJXy-0007Rg-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 05:56:06 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id E559613040 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 06:56:05 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id D798C225C1; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 06:56:00 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 06:56:00 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are UFS and FFS the same thing ? Message-ID: <20020228055600.GB3311@raggedclown.net> References: <72026617@toto.iv> <15485.36390.427112.610849@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15485.36390.427112.610849@guru.mired.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i 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 On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 07:55:50PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > Cliff Sarginson 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 -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message