Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Feb 1999 18:57:58 -0500 (EST) | From | David Feuer <> | Subject | filesystem flexibility |
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It seems to me that Linux-native filesystems (ext, ext2, reiserfs, .....) should all have a filesystem tag at the beginning indicating to mount, the kernel, or whomever what type they are. While the partition-type mechanism available on PCs is perhaps useful for such things, it does not offer necessary flexibility (many fs's, fs versions,....). Proposal: version, and the number of bytes. If this is really not causing any problems, forget I wrote this.
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