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From: "Matt Sealey" <matt@genesi-usa.com>
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:54:41 -0500
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Grehan [mailto:grehan@freebsd.org] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 9:48 AM
> To: matt@genesi-usa.com
> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: On-disk format of UFS1, UFS2 for firmware
> 
> > I was wondering where the best place to ask was to find out any 
> > documentation on the on-disk format of UFS1 and UFS2 (barring the 
> > FreeBSD source tree, I have that already).
> 
>   In terms of source, the libstand implementation is a bit 
> easier to follow/use than the in-kernel UFS proper for a 
> bootloader at least.

Yes! I already found that between asking and signing up on freebsd-fs :)

However I would love to see some paper docs which simply tell where the
first block is, what an inode looks like, and how a file is laid out..

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Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>
Manager, Genesi, Developer Relations