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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>
To: Dominik Kubla <dominik.kubla@uni-mainz.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext3 vs. JFS file locations...
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 18:48:47 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A04CA8F.D19535B1@transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A02D150.E7E87398@usa.net> <200011031725.eA3HPwP12932@webber.adilger.net> <8tv3tm$iqg$1@cesium.transmeta.com> <20001105024621.A29327@uni-mainz.de>

Dominik Kubla wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 11:33:10AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >
> > How about naming it something that doesn't end in -fs, such as
> > "journal" or "jfsl" (Journaling Filesystem Layer?)
> >
> 
> Why?  I'd rather rename IBM's jfs to ibmjfs and be done with it.
> 
> Yours,
>   Dominik Kubla
> 

Because -fs is usually used by filesystems itself.  Since the journaling
layer doesn't really have a publically visible name, it's easy to change.

	-hpa

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  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-05  2:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-03 14:53 ext3 vs. JFS file locations Michael Boman
2000-11-03 15:38 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-03 17:30   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-03 17:25 ` Andreas Dilger
2000-11-03 19:33   ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-05  1:46     ` Dominik Kubla
2000-11-05  2:48       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2000-11-05 12:39         ` Dominik Kubla
2000-11-05  2:53       ` Albert D. Cahalan
2000-11-05 10:49         ` James Sutherland
2000-11-06 11:51         ` Stephen C. Tweedie

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