Subject: Re: large FFSv2 -> file system corruption
To: Pavel Cahyna <pavel.cahyna@st.cuni.cz>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: current-users
Date: 07/20/2004 22:18:51
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Pavel Cahyna wrote:

> A bit off-topic, but is there any reason for using UFS2 instead of FFSv1?
> According to http://www.netbsd.org/Misc/features.html#large-filesystems,
> ffs (v1) should also support such large filesystems. I was looking at
> freebsd.org and didn't find anything relevant. I was thinking that if they
> announce UFS2, they will also tell why it is better, but this doesn't seem
> to happen.

 	Once point I've noticed: fsck is much faster.

 	Handy on boxes with promiment power buttons :)

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