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From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FileSystem-level compression
Date: 17 May 1996 23:06:11 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD Box
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In article <4ni606$pqc@irzr17.inf.tu-dresden.de>,
Michael Hohmuth <hohmuth@inf.tu-dresden.de> wrote:
>
>Also, it would be nice if papers (and other documentation) describing
>aspects of BSD kernel internals would be available on www.freebsd.org.

There are some under /usr/share/doc, but they're rather ancient. On
the positive side, the 4.4BSD version of the "daemon book" has finally
come out:-

The Design and Implelemtation of the 4.4BSD Operating System
McKusick, Bostic, Karels, Quarterman
addison-wesley
1996
isbn # 0-201-54979-4
http://www.aw/com/cseng/

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James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
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james@jraynard.demon.co.uk