Messages in this thread |  | | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: ext3 vs. JFS file locations... | Date | Fri, 3 Nov 2000 10:25:58 -0700 (MST) |
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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.
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