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- Submitted-by: guy@auspex.uucp (Guy Harris)
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- >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.
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- *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?
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- Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 168
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