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Newer page: version 9 Last edited on Friday, July 7, 2006 2:38:19 pm by CraigBox Revert
Older page: version 8 Last edited on Monday, May 15, 2006 12:30:21 pm by CraigBox Revert
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 An [Acronym] for [Unix] FileSystem. 
  
-''InNeedOfRefactor: this page is mostly confused and needs a thorough revision after a good research of the filesystem history .''  
+UFS started out as a layer on top of Berkeley Fast FileSystem (FFS), which was a derivative of the "FS" filesystem used in the first versions of [UNIX] at [AT&T]. It was introduced in the 4.4[BSD] distribution and is common in its derivatives, such [FreeBSD], [NetBSD] and [OpenBSD], as well as [Solaris]. The [Linux] [Kernel] only includes experimental support . 
  
-It was originally developed from the first versions of [UNIX] at [AT&T]. The FileSystem reached its current status in the 4.x [BSD] distributions. It it currently used in [FreeBSD], [NetBSD] as well as [OpenBSD] and the [Solaris] Operating Environment. The [Linux] [Kernel] only includes experimental support.  
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- [FreeBSD] versions 5.0 introduced UFS2, which allows FileSystem Snapshots, background fscking, as well as support for volumes over 1TB in size. 
+[FreeBSD] version 5.0 introduced UFS2, which allows FileSystem Snapshots, background fscking, as well as support for volumes over 1TB in size. 
  
 [NetBSD] (since 1.5), [FreeBSD] (since 4.0) and [OpenBSD] (since 2.3) all employ an addition to UFS called SoftUpdates. SoftUpdates is which is a mechanism that allows a file system to safely use delayed writes for metadata updates. The results are consistent filesystems after powerloss/crash and much improved performance. 
  
-Some variants also referred to as FFS (Such as in NetBSD?)  
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- See [http ://www.mckusick.com/softdep/index.html ] for information 
+See [WikiPedia :Unix File System ] for more information.  
  
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