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Everything about Log-structured File System (BSD)

The Log-Structured File System is an implementation of a log-structured file system, originally developed for BSD. It was removed from FreeBSD and OpenBSD; the NetBSD implementation was nonfunctional until work leading up to the 4.0 release made it viable again as a production file system. Wikipedia →

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The A/UX handbookJan L. Harrington · 1989
The A/UX 2.0 handbookJan L. Harrington · 1991

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