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Subject: Re: Support for 4.2BSD Fast File System 
Message-ID: <C8AGoB.KJM@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>
From: eddyg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (Edward Groenendaal)
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1993 06:00:10 GMT
References: <C7yBIu.Bt1@iupui.edu> <1993Jun7.233501.8530@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ
Keywords: bsd filesystem
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In article <1993Jun7.233501.8530@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>In article <C7yBIu.Bt1@iupui.edu> joe@cnc.iupui.edu writes:
>>Does anyone know what vendors support 4.2BSD Fast File System (FFS) in their
>>UNIX operating systems?
>>
>>So far, I've received responses for SunOS, DEC ULTRIX and DEC OSF/1
>>(all yes, BTW).  Who else?  I'd really like to hear from some of the other
>>UNIX users (e.g. HP, SGI, IBM, SCO, Apple, Interactive, AT&T, BSDi, etc.).
>>
>>I'm attempting to compile a list by vendor that includes the OS name and
>>versions that support FFS.  Any help would be appreciated.  I'll post to 
>>comp.unix.misc if anyone expresses interest in seeing the results.
>
>Of those mentioned, All but IBM, SCO, and Apple can use FFS.  They are not

Not quite.. Apple UNIX (A/UX) supports UFS (BSD 4.2/FFS) in it's current
version (3.*) and also in the previous version 2.* as well as the System V
file system.

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