From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 28 6:28:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D8ACB37B432 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 06:28:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 15431 invoked by uid 100); 28 Feb 2002 14:28:23 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15486.16006.465562.700142@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 08:28:22 -0600 To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are UFS and FFS the same thing ? In-Reply-To: <95354014@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.46 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.5-STABLE-i386) 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 Cliff Sarginson types: > 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 ? No, that's what FFS is. But UFS is the Unix File System, which predated the Berkeley Fast File System. > As for changing the names, sure;y you could do that in a perl --oops, > sorry Mike, a python script :) :-). No, I don't think it's that easy. You have top change all the file names, and all the variables referenced inside the code, and make sure that you haven't introduced variable name conflicts somewhere. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message