On-disk format of UNIX filesystems (Was: Re: make DOS a filesystem?)
Guy Harris
guy at auspex.uucp
Wed Oct 3 04:27:32 AEST 1990
Submitted-by: guy at auspex.uucp (Guy Harris)
>While I understand where the "thank goodness" comes from, I do rather
>wish that there were some standards for the on-disk format of UNIX
>filesystems.
*Which* UNIX filesystems? V7/S5? BSD FFS? BSD FFFS? (Fat Fast File
System, i.e. the changes in 4.3-tahoe) SGI extent-based file system?
IBM's journaling file system? The Episode file system in DEcorum?
Veritas's log-based file system? The log-based file system done at
Berkeley? Etc., etc., etc....
And would the standards for those file systems demand that items be
written in big-endian format or little-endian format, or would they
leave it dependent on the endianness of the machine writing the file
system?
Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 168
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