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Berkeley Fast File System

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The Berkeley Fast File System (or FFS) is a file system used mostly by Unix operating systems. It is an optimization to the original filesystem used by Unix System V (called just 'FS') and has evolved into UFS which is used by most Unix derrivatives today.

See also UFS for additional details.

External links

Marshall Kirk McKusick, William N. Joy, Samuel J. Leffler and Robert S. Fabry. A Fast File System for UNIX. Transactions on Computer Systems, vol. 2, num. 3, Aug. 1984, pp. 181-197.
The Linux Documentation Project's Filesystems HOWTO: FFS.
Little UFS2 FAQ: What is the difference between UFS and FFS?

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