[Info-vax] Request description of UFS for VMS person
glen herrmannsfeldt
gah at ugcs.caltech.edu
Tue Apr 21 02:06:19 EDT 2009
AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I want to learn how UFS works at the level mentioned above. I don't
> have any particular problem to solve. I just want to learn it out of
> curiosity and in case I need it later.
There are now many different file systems used by unix/linux
systems. It might be that UFS is one of the simpler ones.
> I do know more or less about how hard and soft links work.
That is one that is likely fairly similar between different
unix file systems. Hard links are directory entries to
the same inode. Symbolic links store the name of the linked
file.
-- glen
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