At Sun, 30 May 1999 12:02:51 -0700 (PDT),
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote ...
>
> On 28-May-99 Adam Lock wrote:
> > I was just browsing the BeOS site and that too claims to have a 64-bit
> > journalling filesystem. Perhaps that would be better suited for home systems
> > if
> > only there were more details available for it...
>
> More has been published about bfs than almost any other commercial filesystem.
> There's a book ("Practial File System Design with the Be file system") which
> goes into great detail about it. There's also one read-only implementation of
In this book, there is the interesting contents about performance of XFS,
BFS, NTFS and ext2. If you are interesting in it, I recommend you
reading this book.
However, I guess that speed of BFS depends on BeOS. On VFS layer, it
won't be highest performance.
> It has definitely been designed as a single-user desktop filesystem. There's a
> number of tradeoffs which have been made against servers and towards
> single-user use, which makes sense given the nature of the OS.
But, BFS supports unix-like ACL.
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Makoto Kato
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