Re: GFS, what's remaining

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Sep 01 2005 - 09:26:19 EST


On Iau, 2005-09-01 at 03:59 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> - Why the kernel needs two clustered fileystems

So delete reiserfs4, FAT, VFAT, ext2, and all the other "junk".

> - Why GFS is better than OCFS2, or has functionality which OCFS2 cannot
> possibly gain (or vice versa)
>
> - Relative merits of the two offerings

You missed the important one - people actively use it and have been for
some years. Same reason with have NTFS, HPFS, and all the others. On
that alone it makes sense to include.

Alan

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