From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 15 16:52:47 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FAC616A4CE for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:52:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4A1843D39 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:52:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from adnichols@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so201205wra for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 08:52:45 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=ueGcfLBipuTK2Wt057Pfo+xX6ycWZX5V1ujVa3GgoqAvUeZhRT3SCw8MqRvh29VD3sMZqHsHqj2zEuP3aoE8jBI8NRxfpYlvKFVepHN1Z8+mMKJj5iPAtizwcQXRZyCODpdnB+atjeqb3FpqYj/leYHhqlOhEDKTLqOBKqHyF+8= Received: by 10.54.18.22 with SMTP id 22mr463547wrr; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 08:52:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.35.52 with HTTP; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 08:52:45 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 08:52:45 -0800 From: Aaron Nichols To: "Loren M. Lang" In-Reply-To: <20041115110859.GA10030@alzatex.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20041115110859.GA10030@alzatex.com> cc: FreeBSD Mailing list Subject: Re: FFS vs. UFS vs. UFS2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Aaron Nichols List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:52:47 -0000 First hit on google: http://sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net/jeroen/faq.html On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 03:08:59 -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: > FreeBSD's main file system is currently UFS2, but I've also heard > reference to UFS and the Berkeley Fast File System(FFS). Looking > through the kernel source I've found directories for both ufs and ffs, > but not ufs2 (/sys/ufs/{ufs|ffs}/). Also, it seems like Solaris and/or > other commercial unices also used ufs, is this the same ufs used in BSD > and how does this relate to ffs and ufs2?