Re: more thoughts on kernel config organization

From: Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk)
Date: Mon Jan 13 2003 - 07:32:43 EST

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On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 11:17:46PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> starting at what seems to be a pretty arbitrary choice
> (quota support? how did that end up at the top of the list?),
> we then get "automounter" (again, a bit premature, it seems),
> then reiserfs(??), and a bunch of experimental filesystems
> before getting to ext3, which doesn't really flow well.
> then we jump to DOS filesystems, bounce around a bit more,
> on to JFS (why is this not next to reiserfs?), etc, etc.
> and, near that bottom of the list, ext2??

At one point I'm sure it was alphabetically ordered.
As time as gone on, it's turned into arbitary placement..

Dave

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