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Date:      Fri, 29 Oct 1999 18:19:08 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely.de>, Don <don@calis.blacksun.org>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Journaling 
Message-ID:  <4407.941213948@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Oct 1999 09:58:58 EDT." <19991029095858.50758@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> 

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In message <19991029095858.50758@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey writes:
>On Wednesday, 27 October 1999 at 19:32:00 +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
>> The number of partitions has nothing to do with with the filesystem you use.
>> FFS is not a partitionsheme but a filesystem.
>> UFS is a historic filesystem on which FFS is based.
>
>Well, in fact they're the same thing.  The *old* name is FFS (Fast
>File System).  When System V.4 was released, they adopted FFS as the
>standard file system and called it the UNIX File System.

...Whereas in *BSD "UFS" refers to the unix sematics layer (directory
manipulation and all that) and "FFS" refers to the underlying storage
object manager (which only understands inodes and their layout.)

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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