FFS vs. UFS vs. UFS2

Aaron Nichols adnichols at gmail.com
Mon Nov 15 08:52:47 PST 2004


First hit on google:

http://sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net/jeroen/faq.html


On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 03:08:59 -0800, Loren M. Lang <lorenl at alzatex.com> wrote:
> FreeBSD's main file system is currently UFS2, but I've also heard
> reference to UFS and the Berkeley Fast File System(FFS).  Looking
> through the kernel source I've found directories for both ufs and ffs,
> but not ufs2 (/sys/ufs/{ufs|ffs}/).  Also, it seems like Solaris and/or
> other commercial unices also used ufs, is this the same ufs used in BSD
> and how does this relate to ffs and ufs2?


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