UFS

UFS may refer to:

Computers

Other

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: