Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Jun 1998 22:58:09 +1000 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: Journaled FS |
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Andrea Arcangeli writes: > On 17 Jun 1998, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > Followup to: <Pine.HPP.3.96.980616171511.15372A-100000@ixion.honeywell.com> > > By author: Shawn Leas <sleas@ixion.honeywell.com> > > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > > > It seems like an oportune time to ask if anyone has been working on a > > > journaled FS for Linux. > > > > > > > Stephen Tweedie is working on a journalling version of ext2, and there > > is an advanced filesystem called reiserfs under development (a > > tree-structured filesystem, similar to Network Appliance's WAFL.) > > I hope fs developers will remeber to use at least 32bit to store major and > minor numbers (instead of only 16bit) while projecting the newfs (to > remove the need of devfs).
The need for devfs remains irrespective of whether we have large device numbers. There are a number of reasons why devfs is required. See: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/devfs.txt for why.
Regards,
Richard....
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