[Info-vax] Request description of UFS for VMS person

[AEF]

On Apr 21, 2:06 am, glen herrmannsfeldt <g... at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
> AEF <spamsink2... 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

Yes, I realized that hard links were just the same file entered in
different directories or different names.

I noticed that soft links have a length of exactly the file-spec they
point to. But I haven't found a way to actually display these
contents. But that's not really a big deal. What else could possibly
be in such a file?

Thanks.

AEF