From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 16 0:53:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19C871508B for ; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 00:53:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA20246; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 01:22:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 01:22:13 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: "Alexey N. Dokuchaev" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 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 On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Alexey N. Dokuchaev wrote: > > 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? UFS is the naming scheme, (ext2fs uses UFS also! :) ) FFS is the on disk layout, uses UFS. MFS is the memory filesystem, uses UFS. > 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 ;-) Yes the uid/gids should all work. > 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. This is brought up time and time again, please check the archives. > 5). What is 'soft-update' (sorry, no mans to read, since my fBSD box is > staying down: no monitor :-( This is brought up time and time again, please check the archives. > > OK. Thank you for considering my message. > enjoy, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message