Files and user file quotas can also reach terabytes. Many other systems limit filesize to 4GB on 32bit machines. Other systems can suffer from 8GB or 33.4GB limits. Soft Updates permit metadata writes to be ordered to achieve close to asynchronous disk performance without risk of metadata corruption. This significantly improves the performance of FFS filesystems.
Systems can also optionally mount filesystems writing with opposing byte ordering.
This is a more completely log structured form of 'Journaled' filesystems such as IRIX's XFS, Reiserfs, Microsoft's NTFS, IBM's JFS, and similar filesystems in Netware and Unixware. This can be used to mount a writable filesystem over a CD-Rom. Handles fixed and wildcard dependencies both when building from source and installing binary packages. Allows automated installation for tools than cannot be redistributed in binary or source form. Provides an infrastructure designed to keep the information required to build each package both shorter and easier to maintain than in other package systems.