Re: How to start to develop a filesystem ?

From: Tigran Aivazian (tigran@veritas.com)
Date: Fri Aug 11 2000 - 11:45:02 EST


On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> I would disagree. ext2 is not large!
>
> ext2: 4873 total
> minix: 3065 total

minix is actually two filesystems - V2 and V1. As for ext2 it may not be
large in comparison to some others but it is still quite
complicated. But yes, if something looks wrong or broken in some other
filesystem one goes back to ext2 to use it as a perfect, known to be
ideal, example.

Regards,
Tigran

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