That is a good point and I believe Stephen has taken this path
from the early start of his patches.
> I would also suggest that Stephen actually drop ext2 altogether.
> There's just too much historical stuff in most filesystems -
> things like having "." and ".." in directories,
Since ext2 is a multiplatform FS and it performs quite well
for most workloads, I think it's a decent basis for advanced
FS work.
Besides, there already _is_ a new and advanced filesystem,
Reiserfs (which will be incorporating some of Stephen's
stuff once reiserfs itself is stable).
> I think that if people are doing a new filesystem, it should be
> done like "ext2" was originally done: by designing a new one,
> rather than building more scaffolding on top of an old one.
Hmm, do I hear the Linus vs. Tanenbaum: "Linux is obsolete"
thread reviving... :)
Rik -- If a Microsoft product fails, who do you sue?
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Linux Memory Management site: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/ |
| Nederlandse Linux documentatie: http://www.nl.linux.org/ |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/