On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Robert Cates wrote:

> can anybody tell me where I can find good, detailed, technical info
> about the file system(s) NetBSD uses (ELF I believe)?

The standard file system is the Berkeley Fast File System (FSS)
also known as UFS (UNIX file system).

Here are some docs:

http://sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net/jeroen/faq.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFS
http://www.cnri.dit.ie/Downloads/Malone_2001_bsdcon.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems
http://www.mckusick.com/softdep/index.html

(ELF is the executable and linking format -- see
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=elf&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=NetBSD%202.0&format=html
and http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/elf.html)

>  I would like to
> compare the NetBSD file system with the EXT3 and ReiserFS from Linux, at
> a technical, possibly performance level.
>
> I don't suppose the NetBSD AMD64 platform file system is any different than the i386 platforms.  Or?


 Jeremy C. Reed

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