UFS

UFS may refer to:

Computers

  • Universal Flash Storage
  • Unix File System, a file system used by many Unix and Unix-like operating systems
  • Unsupervised Forward Selection, a data reduction algorithm
  • Other

  • United Family Services
  • United Feature Syndicate, commonly known as United Media
  • United Feeder Service, a company formerly part of the United Express carrier network
  • Universal Fighting System, a collectible card game
  • Universal Frame System, A bolt locking system standard in the construction of aggressive inline skates
  • Universidade Federal de Sergipe, a Brazilian public university based in São Cristóvão, Sergipe
  • University of the Free State, a South African university
  • UFS (union)

    UFS is a registered, independent trade union, established in 1988 with its headquarters in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. It is a non-profit-making organisation, and is not affiliated to the TUC or to any political party.

    UFS members come from many different employment sectors and they have partnership agreements with some of the UK's major employers, including Zurich Financial Services, Capita Group (Life & Pensions), IBM and CSC.

    History

    The union was originally formed as the Eagle Star Staff Union when the local organiser Alan Wood decided to break away from the national Banking, Insurance and Finance Union. Following the takeover of Eagle Star by Zurich Financial Services in 1998, ESSU changed its name to the Union of Finance Staff,.

    It now goes by the shortened name UFS and has members in various Companies, including Capita, CSC, IBM and Swiss Post.

    National Executive Committee

    As a union, UFS is a democratic organisation that is organised into geographic regions, and is controlled by a National Executive Committee (NEC) which is elected by UFS members from different regions.

    Unix File System

    The Unix file system (UFS; also called the Berkeley Fast File System, the BSD Fast File System or FFS) is a file system used by many Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It is a distant descendant of the original filesystem used by Version 7 Unix.

    Design

    A UFS volume is composed of the following parts:

  • A few blocks at the beginning of the partition reserved for boot blocks (which must be initialized separately from the filesystem)
  • A superblock, containing a magic number identifying this as a UFS filesystem, and some other vital numbers describing this filesystem's geometry and statistics and behavioral tuning parameters
  • A collection of cylinder groups. Each cylinder group has the following components:
    • A backup copy of the superblock
    • A cylinder group header, with statistics, free lists, etc., about this cylinder group, similar to those in the superblock
    • A number of inodes, each containing file attributes
    • A number of data blocks
  • A backup copy of the superblock
  • A cylinder group header, with statistics, free lists, etc., about this cylinder group, similar to those in the superblock
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