From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 16 0:41:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from linux.ssc.nsu.ru (linux.ssc.nsu.ru [193.124.209.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F1CAB15418 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 00:39:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danfe@inet.ssc.nsu.ru) Received: (qmail 31526 invoked from network); 16 Dec 1999 08:39:05 -0000 Received: from inet.ssc.nsu.ru (62.76.110.12) by hub.freebsd.org with SMTP; 16 Dec 1999 08:39:05 -0000 Received: from localhost (danfe@localhost) by inet.ssc.nsu.ru (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA30199 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 14:38:56 +0600 Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 14:38:56 +0600 (NOVT) From: "Alexey N. Dokuchaev" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Filesystem ?s In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! I've got several filesystem-related questions on hold. 1). What is this all about: ufs, mfs, ffs? What so many names? Do they relay to the same fs-type? What are abbreviations stand for? 2). Ext2fs vs. FreeBSD filesystem: when I mount ext2fs partition, do I get write/read access? Will all uids/gids will still be actual (I mean, when resolving name for id, my /etc/passwd & group files will be used). I can't check all this right now since I don't have ext2fs parts right now; otherwise I won't bother you ;-) 4). Maybe more -hackers or -fs related questions, but, still, I am kinda interested in FSes, so: how does FreeBSD FS compete with ext2fs? Which one shows better performance (of course, in different cases it would be different, such as: low disk usage, intensive disk usage, caching strategy/algorithms, when disk is almost full (NTFS would be totaly f%cked up here) and so on....). Any information would be appreciated. 5). What is 'soft-update' (sorry, no mans to read, since my fBSD box is staying down: no monitor :-( OK. Thank you for considering my message. ./danfe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message