From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 9 10:20:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sol (cs1-gw.cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.171.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CB5AA14D3E for ; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 10:19:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu) Received: from localhost (zzhang@localhost) by sol (SMI-8.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA19889 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 13:08:29 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 13:08:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: What is FTW? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the FAQ of FreeBSD 2.X, 13.12. Alternative layout policies for directories, there is the following sentence: Most filesystems are created from archives that were created by a depth first search (aka ftw). What does ftw stand for (My guess is File Tree Walk)? Can anyone give me examples of programs that create archives from a file tree in a depth first way? Do these programs rebuild the file tree from archive exactly as they were created? Any help is appreciated. -------------------------------------------------- Zhihui Zhang. Please visit http://www.freebsd.org -------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message