From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 10 11:52:36 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 993E814ED0 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 11:52:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu) Received: from localhost (zzhang@localhost) by sol (SMI-8.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA25864 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 14:41:01 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 14:41:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is FTW? In-Reply-To: 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 On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > 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? > I have just found that ftw does stand for File Tree Walk and there is a C library routine named ftw() (XPG4 standard) in AIX and HP-UX. However, I can not find the same routine in FreeBSD manual pages. Maybe it is not supported by FreeBSD. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message