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The File Filesystem (2021)

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346 points wegwerff | 1 comments | 30 Apr 24 17:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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yjftsjthsd-h ◴[30 Apr 24 18:21 UTC] No.40214314[source]▶
I would gently suggest naming it filefs or something; ffs already means https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?ffs(7)

That said - good idea/approach; seems like an excellent way to cleanly extend the unix approach to structured file formats:)

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galkk ◴[30 Apr 24 19:18 UTC] No.40215086[source]▶
Op’s ffs do not target FreeBSD and it l seems like referenced system is FreeBSD only. Claiming naming rights is a stretch here
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1. yjftsjthsd-h ◴[30 Apr 24 19:54 UTC] No.40215536[source]▶
FFS predates FreeBSD and is in some capacity supported by all 3 major BSDs. I'm fairly confident that Linux actually supports it through the ufs driver ( https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/fs/ufs ); whether the use of different names in different places makes it better or worse is an exercise for the reader.