Re: EFS in 2.3.2 ???

Robert Schiele (rschiele@uni-mannheim.de)
Sun, 16 May 1999 22:51:11 +0200

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Riley Williams wrote:
>
> Hi there.
>
> I note that the 2.3.2 kernel tree includes a new filesystem called
> EFS, but there is apparently no documentation on what it is - no
> entries in Configure.help and nothing elsewhere in the Documentation
> tree either...
>
> Does anybody know anything about this file system and what it's for?
>
> Best wishes from Riley.
>

This is the so called Extent File System used by Silicon Graphics on
IRIX versions older then 6.0. In 6.0 it was replaced by xfs.

Robert

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