Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!bionet!ames!sgi!jmb@patton.sgi.com From: jmb@patton.sgi.com (Jim Barton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: What's and "Extent File System"? Message-ID: <42135@sgi.sgi.com> Date: 25 Sep 89 14:49:40 GMT References: <14062@shamash.cdc.com> <643@odin.SGI.COM> <685@galen.acc.virginia.edu> Sender: jmb@patton.sgi.com Distribution: comp.sys.sgi Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 24 In article <685@galen.acc.virginia.edu>, mlj8e@dale.acc.Virginia.EDU (Michael L. Johnson) writes: > In article <643@odin.SGI.COM> kipp@warp.sgi.com (Kipp Hickman) writes: > > > >The Extent File System is SGI's high performance filesystem running under > >system V. > > kipp hickman > > silicon graphics inc. > Actually, didn't the extent file system come from SUN? > > > > (804)-924-8607 Michael L. Johnson > mlj8e@virginia.EDU Pharmacology Dept. > uunet!virginia!mlj8e Box 448; Univ. of Va. > mlj8e@virginia.BITNET Charlottesville, Va. 22908 Aw, c'mon, don't insult us. Sun hasn't invented a production filesystem that I know of at anytime - they use the fairly standard BSD FFS code. Mr. Hickman actually invented and wrote the code for the Extent File System himself - I'm sure he would resent the slur. -- Jim Barton Silicon Graphics Computer Systems "UNIX: Live Free Or Die!" jmb@sgi.sgi.com, sgi!jmb@decwrl.dec.com, ...{decwrl,sun}!sgi!jmb