Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!decwrl!sgi!vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: What's and "Extent File System"? Summary: #@#%@&! EFS is an SGI thing! Message-ID: <42100@sgi.sgi.com> Date: 24 Sep 89 05:11:09 GMT References: <14062@shamash.cdc.com> <643@odin.SGI.COM> <685@galen.acc.virginia.edu> Sender: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.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: > > 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 Such statements as the preceding should not be made over a real return address. You are in danger of receiving a visit from Jack "The Knife", of the Usenet Department of Permanent Corrections for Base Calumnies. Sun had nothing to do with the Silicon Graphics EFS. The file system Sun pushed was NFS, Network File System. Sun runs the Berkeley FFS, or Fast File System, which as Kipp (who should know) says, is somewhat slower than EFS. Of course, anything is faster than the unspeakable, tiny-block-with- jumbled-free-list SV BFS. Vernon Schryver Silicon Graphics vjs@sgi.com