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A Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem by Marshall Kirk McKusick

EuroBSDCon · 879 views · 2020-07-05 · 56:53

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Marshall Kirk McKusick gives a talk at EuroBSDCon tracing filesystem and storage development from 1979 to today, using the BSD Fast Filesystem as the focus. It covers early disk-geometry optimization through later contiguous layout and small-file performance work.

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Pointed to as the authoritative history of FFS from one of its original creators.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2020–2023

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throw0101a · 2023-05 · Recommendation

For more history, perhaps see "A Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem by Marshall Kirk McKusick": * [VIDEO] * [LINK] In the article the classic The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System is mentioned: * [LINK] See also the more recent The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System : * [LINK]

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nix23 · 2022-05 · Reference

exFAT has no journal, so you feel the difference when it's already to late ;) >I’ve never noticed any difference Well, i don't know what to say, but you can read some of them: [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] UFS SoftUpdates are a bit like journals and UFS has something like policies so you can change the "behavior" of the filesystem on the fly. With SU, UFS gained the ability to make snapshots (a feature ~normally just COW filesystems support) >A Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem by Marshall Kirk McKusick [VIDEO] ZFS has just too many feature's to write them down, but data integrity, compression, snapshots and an integrated volume-manager are surely some high-lights. And speaking about Linux Filesystems, there are some points that RHEL uses XFS and not EXT3/4: [LINK]

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pjmlp · 2020-11 · Reference

"Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, The, 2nd Edition" [LINK] Marshall Kirk McKusick has done some talks on the subject. [LINK] [LINK] [VIDEO] [LINK]

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