• Marshall Kirk McKusick, then a Berkeley graduate student, optimized the V7 FS layout to create BSD 4.2's FFS (Fast File System) by inventing cylinder groups...
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  • Fast File System may refer to: Berkeley Fast File System, as used by the various BSD variants Amiga Fast File System, as used by AmigaOS This disambiguation...
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  • replacement for the extended file system (ext). Having been designed according to the same principles as the Berkeley Fast File System from BSD, it was the first...
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  • preliminary TCP/IP implementation; 4.1b from June 1982 included the new Berkeley Fast File System, implemented by Marshall Kirk McKusick; and 4.1c in April 1983...
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  • Berkeley Castle, two British naval ships Berkeley DB, an embedded database system by Sleepycat Software Berkeley Fast File System, Unix file system Berkeley...
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    completely unavailable in System V, and that Berkeley UNIX is much more suited to a research environment, which requires a faster file system, better virtual memory...
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  • FFS – Berkeley Fast File System, used on *BSD systems Fossil – Plan 9 from Bell Labs snapshot archival file system. Files-11 – OpenVMS file system; also...
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  • uncommon "ZM" (5A 4D) as well for dosZMXP, a non-PE EXE. The Berkeley Fast File System superblock format is identified as either 19 54 01 19 or 01 19 54...
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  • FFS2, Flash File System 2, developed and patented by Microsoft. FFS2, Unix File System, Berkeley Fast File System, the BSD Fast File System or FFS FFS2...
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    partially extended UNIX's "everything is a file" notion to these network protocols. The Berkeley Fast File System increased the block allocation size from...
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    FreeBSD (category ARM operating systems)
    "Berkeley Unix" or "Berkeley Software Distribution" (BSD), implementing features such as TCP/IP, virtual memory, and the Berkeley Fast File System. The...
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    Marshall Kirk McKusick (category University of California, Berkeley alumni)
    the BSD system. Some of his largest contributions to BSD have been to the file system. He helped to design the original Berkeley Fast File System (FFS)...
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  • compare general and technical information for a number of file systems. All widely used file systems record a last modified time stamp (also known as "mtime")...
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  • experimental Unix-like distributed operating system developed at the University of California, Berkeley by John Ousterhout's research group between 1984...
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  • artificial intelligence, Mindpixel Marshall Kirk McKusick – BSD, Berkeley Fast File System Lambert Meertens – ALGOL 68, IFIP WG 2.1 member, ABC (programming...
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  • DBM (computing) (category Free database management systems)
    and file format providing fast, single-keyed access to data. A key-value database from the original Unix, dbm is an early example of a NoSQL system. The...
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    original Unix file system supported three types of files: ordinary files, directories, and "special files", also termed device files. The Berkeley Software...
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    Filename (redirect from File name)
    A filename or file name is a name used to uniquely identify a computer file in a file system. Different file systems impose different restrictions on filename...
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  • Berkeley RISC is one of two seminal research projects into reduced instruction set computer (RISC) based microprocessor design taking place under the Defense...
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    Bob Fabry (category University of California, Berkeley faculty)
    Fabry founded the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) in the EECS Department at the University of California, Berkeley in 1979. The BSD software developed...
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  • designed for file transfer over a telecommunications network. Protocols for shared file systems—such as 9P and the Network File System—are beyond the...
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  • of FreeBSD (including the process model, network stack, and virtual file system), and an object-oriented device driver API called I/O Kit. The hybrid...
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  • I/O device with no file system, and the name is short for the format description "tape archive". When stored in a file system, a file that tar reads and...
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  • ZFS (redirect from Zettabyte File System)
    Zettabyte File System) is a file system with volume management capabilities. It began as part of the Sun Microsystems Solaris operating system in 2001....
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  • "Exploiting Unix File-System Races via Algorithmic Complexity Attacks" (PDF). 2009 30th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. Berkeley, CA: IEEE Computer...
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  • Soft updates (category Unix file system technology)
    Soft updates is an approach to maintaining file system metadata integrity in the event of a crash or power outage. Soft updates work by tracking and enforcing...
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  • Alluxio (category Distributed file systems)
    distributed file system (VDFS). Initially as research project "Tachyon", Alluxio was created at the University of California, Berkeley's AMPLab as Haoyuan...
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  • Allocate-on-flush (category Computer file systems)
    a file system feature implemented in HFS+, XFS, Reiser4, ZFS, Btrfs, and ext4. The feature also closely resembles an older technique that Berkeley's UFS...
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  • Symbolic link (category Unix file system technology)
    operating system as a path to another file or directory. This other file or directory is called the "target". The symbolic link is a second file that exists...
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    membership organization based in Berkeley, California and founded in 1975 that supports advanced computing systems, operating system (OS), and computer networking...
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