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From: guyd@austin.ibm.com (Guy Dawson)
Subject: Re: Support for 4.2BSD Fast File System
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Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 13:56:35 GMT
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References: <C7yBIu.Bt1@iupui.edu> <1ugqo1$5vl@genesis.MCS.COM> <C815MC.10I@queernet.org> <1ukgtd$gmr@mail.fwi.uva.nl>
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Keywords: bsd filesystem
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In article <1ukgtd$gmr@mail.fwi.uva.nl>, casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) writes:
> rogerk@queernet.org (Roger B.A. Klorese) writes:
>
> >In article <1ugqo1$5vl@genesis.MCS.COM> karl@genesis.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:
> >>The "ufs" in SVR4 releases is nearly 100% BSD FFS in terms of its
> >>implementation. Blocks/frags, cylinder groups, inodes > 64k, long
> >>filenames, symlinks, etc.
>
> >However, its on-disk format is *not* identical, and UFS/FFS file systems
> >cannot be physically transported between different operating systems.
>
> I'm not sure about this. The SunOS format (BSD) can be used in
> Solaris 2.x (SYSV).
That's probably due to Sun tinkering with the FS than UFS and FFS having
compatable on-disk formats
>
> Casper
Guy
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