What's and "Extent File System"?

[Vernon Schryver]

In article <685 at galen.acc.virginia.edu>, mlj8e at dale.acc.Virginia.EDU (Michael L. Johnson) writes:
>
>  Actually, didn't the extent file system come from SUN?
> 
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Such statements as the preceding should not be made over a real return
address.  You are in danger of receiving a visit from Jack "The Knife", of
the Usenet Department of Permanent Corrections for Base Calumnies.

Sun had nothing to do with the Silicon Graphics EFS.  The file system Sun
pushed was NFS, Network File System.  Sun runs the Berkeley FFS, or Fast
File System, which as Kipp (who should know) says, is somewhat slower than
EFS.  Of course, anything is faster than the unspeakable, tiny-block-with-
jumbled-free-list SV BFS.


Vernon Schryver
Silicon Graphics
vjs at sgi.com