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21.Dd November 29, 2021
22.Dt UFS 4FS
23.Os
24.Sh NAME
25.Nm ufs
26.Nd UFS file system
27.Sh SYNOPSIS
28.In sys/param.h
29.In sys/types.h
30.In sys/fs/ufs_fs.h
31.In sys/fs/ufs_inode.h
32.Sh DESCRIPTION
33.Nm
34is one of the primary default disk-based file systems for illumos.
35The UFS file system is hierarchical, starting with its root directory
36.Pq Pa /
37and continuing downward through a number of directories.
38The root of a UFS file system is
39.Sy inode 2 .
40A UFS file system's root contents replace the contents of the directory upon
41which it is mounted.
42.Pp
43Subsequent sections of this manpage provide details of the UFS file systems.
44.Ss State Flags Pq Fa fs_state , Fa fs_clean
45UFS uses state flags to identify the state of the file system.
46.Fa fs_state
47is
48.Dv FSOKAY -
49.Fa fs_time .
50.Fa fs_time
51is the timestamp that indicates when the last system write occurred.
52.Fa fs_state
53is updated whenever
54.Fa fs_clean
55changes.
56Some
57.Fa fs_clean
58values are:
59.Bl -tag -width Ds
60.It Dv FSCLEAN
61Indicates an undamaged, cleanly unmounted file system.
62.It Dv FSACTIVE
63Indicates a mounted file system that has modified data in memory.
64A mounted file system with this state flag indicates that user data or metadata
65would be lost if power to the system is interrupted.
66.It Dv FSSTABLE
67Indicates an idle mounted file system.
68A mounted file system with this state flag indicates that neither user data nor
69metadata would be lost if power to the system is interrupted.
70.It Dv FSBAD
71Indicates that this file system contains inconsistent file system data.
72.It Dv FSLOG
73Indicates that the file system has logging enabled.
74A file system with this flag set is either mounted or unmounted.
75If a file system has logging enabled, the only flags that it can have are
76.Dv FSLOG
77or
78.Dv FSBAD .
79A non-logging file system can have
80.Dv FSACTIVE ,
81.Dv FSSTABLE ,
82or
83.Dv FSCLEAN .
84.Pp
85It is not necessary to run the
86.Sy fsck
87command on unmounted file systems with a state of
88.Dv FSCLEAN ,
89.Dv FSSTABLE ,
90or
91.Dv FSLOG .
92.Xr mount 2
93returns
94.Dv ENOSPC
95if an attempt is made to mount a UFS file system with a state of
96.Dv FSACTIVE
97for read/write access.
98.Pp
99As an additional safeguard,
100.Fa fs_clean
101should be trusted only if
102.Fa fs_state
103contains a value equal to
104.Dv FSOKAY -
105.Fa fs_time ,
106where
107.Dv FSOKAY
108is a constant integer defined in the
109.Pa /usr/include/sys/fs/ufs_fs.h
110file.
111Otherwise,
112.Fa fs_clean
113is treated as though it contains the value of
114.Dv FSACTIVE .
115.El
116.Ss Extended Fundamental Types (EFT)
117Extended Fundamental Types
118.Pq EFT
119provide 32-bit user ID
120.Pq UID ,
121group ID
122.Pq GID ,
123and device numbers.
124.Pp
125If a UID or GID contains an extended value, the short variable
126.Po
127.Fa ic_suid ,
128.Fa ic_sgid
129.Pc
130contains the value 65535 and the corresponding UID or GID is in
131.Fa ic_uid
132or
133.Fa ic_gid .
134Because numbers for block and character devices are stored in the first direct
135block pointer of the inode
136.Pq Fa ic_db[0]
137and the disk block addresses are already 32 bit values, no special encoding
138exists for device numbers
139.Pq unlike UID or GID fields .
140.Ss Multiterabyte File System
141A multiterabyte file system enables creation of a UFS file system up to
142approximately 16 terabytes of usable space, minus approximately one percent
143overhead.
144A sparse file can have a logical size of one terabyte.
145However, the actual amount of data that can be stored in a file is approximately
146one percent less than one terabyte because of file system overhead.
147.Pp
148On-disk format changes for a multiterabyte UFS file system include:
149.Bl -bullet -offset indent
150.It
151The magic number in the superblock changes from
152.Dv FS_MAGIC
153to
154.Dv MTB_UFS_MAGIC .
155For more information, see the
156.Pa /usr/include/sys/fs/ufs_fs.h
157file.
158.It
159The
160.Fa fs_logbno
161unit is a sector for UFS that is less than 1 terabyte in
162size and fragments for a multiterabyte UFS file system.
163.El
164.Ss UFS Logging
165UFS logging bundles the multiple metadata changes that comprise a complete UFS
166operation into a transaction.
167Sets of transactions are recorded in an on-disk log and are applied to the
168actual UFS file system's metadata.
169.Pp
170UFS logging provides two advantages:
171.Bl -enum
172.It
173A file system that is consistent with the transaction log eliminates the
174need to run
175.Sy fsck
176after a system crash or an unclean shutdown.
177.It
178UFS logging often provides a significant performance improvement.
179This is because a file system with logging enabled converts multiple updates to
180the same data into single updates, thereby reducing the number of overhead disk
181operations.
182.El
183.Pp
184The UFS log is allocated from free blocks on the file system and is sized at
185approximately 1 Mbyte per 1 Gbyte of file system, up to 256 Mbytes.
186The log size may be larger (up to a maximum of 512 Mbytes), depending upon the
187number of cylinder groups present in the file system.
188The log is continually flushed as it fills up.
189The log is also flushed when the file system is unmounted or as a result of a
190.Xr lockfs 8
191command.
192.Ss Mounting UFS File Systems
193You can mount a UFS file system in various ways using syntax similar to the
194following:
195.Bl -enum
196.It
197Use
198.Xr mount 8
199from the command line:
200.Bd -literal -offset indent
201# mount -F ufs /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 /export/home
202.Ed
203.It
204Include an entry in the
205.Pa /etc/vfstab
206file to mount the file system at boot time:
207.Bd -literal -offset indent
208/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s7 /export/home  ufs   2   yes  -
209.Ed
210.El
211.Pp
212For more information on mounting UFS file systems, see
213.Xr mount_ufs 8 .
214.Sh INTERFACE STABILITY
215.Sy Uncomitted
216.Sh SEE ALSO
217.Xr mount 2 ,
218.Xr attributes 7 ,
219.Xr df 8 ,
220.Xr fsck 8 ,
221.Xr fsck_ufs 8 ,
222.Xr fstyp 8 ,
223.Xr lockfs 8 ,
224.Xr mkfs_ufs 8 ,
225.Xr newfs 8 ,
226.Xr tunefs 8 ,
227.Xr ufsdump 8 ,
228.Xr ufsrestore 8
229.Sh NOTES
230For information about internal UFS structures, see
231.Xr newfs 8
232and
233.Xr mkfs_ufs 8 .
234For information about dumping and restoring file systems, see
235.Xr ufsdump 8 ,
236.Xr ufsrestore 8 ,
237and
238.Pa /usr/include/protocols/dumprestore.h .
239If you experience difficulty in allocating space on the ufs filesystem, it may
240be due to fragmentation.
241Fragmentation can occur when you do not have sufficient free blocks to satisfy
242an allocation request even though
243.Xr df 8
244indicates that enough free space is available.
245(This may occur because df only uses the available fragment count to calculate
246available space, but the file system requires contiguous sets of fragments for
247most allocations).
248If you suspect that you have exhausted contiguous fragments on your file system,
249you can use the
250.Xr fstyp 8
251utility with the
252.Fl v
253option.
254In the fstyp output, look at the
255.Em nbfree
256.Pq number of blocks free
257and
258.Fa nffree
259.Pq (number of fragments free)
260fields.
261On unmounted filesystems, you can use
262.Xr fsck 8
263and observe the last line of output, which reports, among other items, the
264number of fragments and the degree of fragmentation.
265To correct a fragmentation problem, run
266.Xr ufsdump 8
267and
268.Xr ufsrestore 8
269on the ufs filesystem.
270