Subject: Re: SGI XFS filesystem
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/28/1999 15:41:21
christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas) writes:
> There are some implications of changing the layout:
> - many user programs will need to be modified to include the
> correct headers
> - kernel sources will have to be moved
Sure, but every few years you've gotta have a bunch of churn! how
long has it been since sys/arch was created? 8-)
> I personally like something like fs/ufs, fs/nfs, fs/ntfs... I don't
> think that classify them further serves any useful purpose except
> adding bytes to source files.
Actually, i think the 'ufs' thing is a bad idea. i'd like to see:
fs/ufs_common
fs/ffs
fs/mfs
fs/lfs
etc. At least things would be nice and consistent that way.
> And finally, we can go the solaris direction and move all the fs related
> commands into separate directories and leave only the central command
> behind.
Actually, with the exception of the directories, we're going in that
direction already... 8-)
cgd
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