From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 22 19:56: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail42.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail42.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.254.60.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF2C237B416 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 19:55:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.lakwod3.co.home.com ([24.6.228.202]) by femail42.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20011123035555.DESY7860.femail42.sdc1.sfba.home.com@localhost.lakwod3.co.home.com> for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 19:55:55 -0800 Subject: Filesystems questions Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Sean LeBlanc X-mda: Mail::Internet Mail::Sendmail Sendmail +mmhack 1.1 on Linux Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Mime-version: 1.0 Content-disposition: inline Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 21:02:38 -0700 Message-id: <20011122210238.A682@hostwiththemost> 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 I've been dabbling with FreeBSD a little over a week now, and I was wondering about other filesystems, and how often they are used? Also journaling filesystems like ext3 and Reiser that Linux has. I was doing some Google searches, and I saw that ufs uses soft updates to make up for not journaling? Any alternative filesystems for FreeBSD that are popular? Also, I was checking into encrypted filesystems, and came up with cfs...does anyone actually use this in practice? There didn't seem to be much discussion that I could turn up on Usenet archives on Google. Also, I've picked up Greg Lehey's _The_Complete_FreeBSD_. This was based on some Amazon reviews I've read and the fact that my local B&N actually only carried this one out of like six potentially good titles I wrote down before going to B&N. It doesn't seem bad; it just seems a tad thin on some areas, and thick on others (that I don't think I'll necessarily need). Anyone have any recommendations for a good supplement to this book...besides the web site, that is? I know lots of folks like to point there for answers, but I want something I can sit down and read offline. -- Sean LeBlanc:seanleblanc@home.com Yahoo:seanleblancathome ICQ:138565743 MSN:seanleblancathome AIM:sleblancathome We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. -R. D. Laing, The Politics of Experience Management QOTD:I agree. Clearly this group should reach agreement and mitigate risk on the paradigm shift. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message