Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:51:02 +0000 (GMT) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | Re: filesystems |
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On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > you do not mount a VFS filesystem. VFS is not a filesystem. VFS is a > Virtual Filesystem Switch, i.e. a set of concepts, philosophy, data > structures and functions which together make writing new filesystems easy. > The name is derived from the SVR4 data structure vfssw (sic?) whence all > the good concepts of VFS came (yea, yea, I know, AV (and history books) > will tell me that Sun had a vnode/vfs layer and that even FreeBSD has a > sort of VFS/vnode layer but we all know that the really good form of VFS > came from SVR4, like it or not, the others, except Linux of course, are > impostors)
perhaps I invented a new English word "achronal impostor", i.e. impostor even if he was there before others ;)
And, to emphasize my respect to Al Viro, I would like to explain that I sometimes spell "my personal humble opinion" as "we all know", just read between the lines and you will be Ok.
Regards, Tigran
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