On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 05:45:02PM +0100, tigran@veritas.com wrote:
> 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
>
That's what we did originally, but lacking a reasonable (good/any ?)
understanding of the internal architecture of the kernel regarding
the filesystems organisation and the VFS layer (page/buffer caching)
we got somewhat lost in ext2. Maybe going through Minix first wil
help understanding ext2.
A+,
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