Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: ext3 vs. JFS file locations... | Date | 3 Nov 2000 11:33:10 -0800 |
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Followup to: <200011031725.eA3HPwP12932@webber.adilger.net> By author: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Michael Boman writes: > > It seems like both IBM's JFS and ext3 wants to use fs/jfs .. IMHO that > > is like asking for problem.. A more logic location for ext3 should be > > fs/ext3, no? > > Actually, if you would look in linux/fs, you will see that ext3 IS in > linux/fs/ext3. However, there is a second component to ext3, which is > a generic block journalling layer which is called jfs. This journal > layer is designed so that it isn't ext3 specific, so it would be > _possible_ for other journalling filesystems to use it. Whether non-ext3 > filesystems will actually use it is another question (actually the > InterMezzo distributed filesystem uses the ext3-jfs functionality to > do compound transactions on disk to ensure cluster coherency). > > I think that Stephen at one time said he would change the name, but I > guess he has not done so yet. >
How about naming it something that doesn't end in -fs, such as "journal" or "jfsl" (Journaling Filesystem Layer?)
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