Re: Let's make ext2fs into lfs (Was: Is anyone using EXT FS)

Laszlo Vecsey (master@internexus.net)
Sat, 23 Mar 1996 13:44:48 -0500 (EST)

> >A very incomplete list:
> >afs - gone; [bcd]fs ?; efs - confusing with the old extfs; ffs - gone; gfs -
> >someone might think it was a GNU filesystem; hfs seems familiar from somewhere,
> >[ijk]fs ? lfs gone; mfs gone (mem fs under bsd); nfs gone; [opq]fs?; rfs gone;
> >[st]fs ?; ufs gone (and can we port the bsd one?); vfs - gone (virtual layer);
> >wfs?; xfs - not sure; [yz]fs ?
>
> DFS was the Disk Filing System on the Beeb. xfs, with various
> capitalisations, has been used at least three times, and further risks
> confusion with xiafs.

DFS is also distributed file system (netsearch for DFS/DCE). It would be
great to have support for some form of distributed file system in Linux.
Someone already mentioned that the AFS client is available (no clue
where), but there is no server.

Also, concerning the size of the kernel and old unused code. Why not just
make a Disabled directory somewhere next to the v1.3 distribution
directory, and archive the extfs code and stuff there? Actually, thats
not even necessary because it will always be available in the previous
linux-1.3.x.tar.gz files. But, someone could maintain it and have it
patch easily into the recent kernels -- in which case there would be a
user base for extfs... I say just kill it :>