From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Sep 18 14:58: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from access.mbnet.mb.ca (access.mbnet.mb.ca [204.112.54.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B89A814FD5 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 14:58:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerwiebe@canada.com) Received: from jer (userBc039.videon.wave.ca [204.112.134.59]) by access.mbnet.mb.ca (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA05722 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 16:58:04 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jeremy Wiebe" To: Subject: RE: File systems Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 16:56:10 -0500 Message-ID: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <199909182100.RAA02102@kanga.INS.CWRU.Edu> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org To the filesystem list we could also add a bunch more from other OS's. For instance Linux's ext2fs, MSDOS's FAT and FAT32, BeOS's Befs, NT's NTFS. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong but I believe most major operating systems have their own filesystem. Of course each one has it's pro's and con's, but that is way out of my league. ---------------------- Jeremy Wiebe jerwiebe@canada.com icq: 4945359 Reply to message from jschultz@home.com of Sat, 18 Sep > >I was just wondering what all the different file systems are used for and >what they stand for. This is what I have know (or do not know) so far: > >ufs - ?universal? file system, basic file system for unix >mfs - memory file system, a file system created in memory(RAM) thus very >fast >nfs - network file system, a file system for networking, allows for remote >system to mount it as a local file system >ffs - fast file system - uummm its fast :) >Are there any others avaible? AFS VFS AdvFS LFS [--snip--] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message