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Date:      Sat, 11 May 1996 12:17:49 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        pchhibbe@attila.stevens-tech.edu (Parag Chhibber)
Subject:   Re: Allocation Unit and File System in General
Message-ID:  <199605111017.MAA27960@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960510191750.006baf38@attila.stevens-tech.edu> from Parag Chhibber at "May 10, 96 03:17:50 pm"

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As Parag Chhibber wrote:

> I was wondering what type of file system is used by FreeBSD, and more
> importantly, what are the size of the allocation units?

Berkeley FFS.  They've already recognized your problem some 10 years
ago. :)  You can read about it in the "Daemon book", ``The 4.3BSD
Operating System.  Design and Implemenation.''  (The update for 4.4BSD
has just been published.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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