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From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: more thoughts on kernel config organization
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:32:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030113123243.GC9031@codemonkey.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301112300570.20815-100000@dell>

On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 11:17:46PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

 >   starting at what seems to be a pretty arbitrary choice
 > (quota support?  how did that end up at the top of the list?),
 > we then get "automounter" (again, a bit premature, it seems),
 > then reiserfs(??), and a bunch of experimental filesystems
 > before getting to ext3, which doesn't really flow well.
 >   then we jump to DOS filesystems, bounce around a bit more,
 > on to JFS (why is this not next to reiserfs?), etc, etc.
 > and, near that bottom of the list, ext2??

At one point I'm sure it was alphabetically ordered.
As time as gone on, it's turned into arbitary placement..

		Dave

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-01-13 12:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-12  4:17 more thoughts on kernel config organization Robert P. J. Day
2003-01-12  8:04 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-01-12  9:22   ` Robert P. J. Day
2003-01-12 10:03     ` Tomas Szepe
2003-01-12 17:12 ` Roman Zippel
2003-01-13 12:32 ` Dave Jones [this message]

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