From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 07:26:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 07:26:04 -0500 Received: from noodles.codemonkey.org.uk ([213.152.47.19]:4749 "EHLO noodles.internal") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 07:26:03 -0500 Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:32:43 +0000 From: Dave Jones To: "Robert P. J. Day" Cc: Linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: more thoughts on kernel config organization Message-ID: <20030113123243.GC9031@codemonkey.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , "Robert P. J. Day" , Linux kernel mailing list References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk | SuSE Labs