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From: stark!gene@newsserv.cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Help!! Superblock of FFS
Date: 25 May 94 07:17:56
Organization: Gene Stark's home system
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Message-ID: <STARK!GENE.94May25071756@stark.uucp>
References: <1994May23.021402.26130@ccsun2.sogang.ac.kr>
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In-reply-to: kadosu@oslab.sogang.ac.kr's message of Mon, 23 May 94 02:14:02 GMT

>I am studying FFS for UNIX(4.2).
>In header file- fs.h, I don't understand many field.
>I have read "A Fast File System for UNIX".
>But this paper did not explain low,phisycal file system structure.
>I want to know the mean of fields of superblock structure,cylinder group structure.

Read:
	Leffler, et. al., "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD
	Operating System".

available at good libraries near you.  This is about 4.3BSD, not 4.2BSD,
but they discuss differences and the basic structures are the same.

							- Gene Stark
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