Re: Filesystem creation

Alan Cox
2002-05-14T17:47:14Z

> > That would break the expected but daft old Unix API
>
> I have to admit that I didn't even know there was a Unix API to break
> and from a personal viewpoint I'd be a lot more interested in building
> compatibility to the current Linux system on the assumption that if the
> API is important in the Unix world as a whole, then Linux will already
> follow it, and if Linux doesn't, then the API can't be that important.

Linux fdisk/mkfs also behave the same wacky way

Alan