Re: Is anyone using EXT FS
Albert Cahalan (albert@ccs.neu.edu)
Sun, 17 Mar 1996 02:40:27 -0500 (EST)
>>> 2. keeps from confusing newbies who don't know what the hell the EXTFS
>>> code does. and yes, we do have to worry about non-unix/linux hackers if
>>> we want this OS to be viable outside of the unix community.
>>>
>> Would it not be worse for "newbies" to have to look in several places
>> for the pieces they need, and then get the right versions?
>
> But for something like EXTFS, if one needs it, one isn't a newbie.
If one is a newbie, ext==ext2.
Bad logic:
The standard filesystem is ext version 2.
'make config' asks if I want ext, so I say yes.
Then it asks if that should be version two - yes there also.
Terrible logic:
The standard filesystem is ext version 2.
I should mount my filesystem as type ext.