Apparently minix fs isn't exclusive to Minix either :-)
> I
> agree that ext2 is a bit of a handfull though. Names of the form [a-z]fs would
> be good, but a lot of them are gone or would be otherwise undesirable.
I disagree. The length of the name is just fine; it's the '2' that's
causing problems for Linux first-timers. "ext" versus "ext2" etc. Cramming
all the filesystem names into three letters would be annoying and would
grate on the nerves. But, just for completeness I'll fill in a few blanks
for you:
> 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,
Macintosh Hierarchical File System.
> [ijk]fs ? lfs gone; mfs gone (mem fs under bsd); nfs gone; [opq]fs?;
ofs = Old File System (Amiga). Would probably annoy a lot of the 68k
types...
> rfs gone;
> [st]fs ?; ufs gone (and can we port the bsd one?); vfs - gone (virtual layer);
> wfs?; xfs - not sure;
Could be confused with xiafs.
> [yz]fs ?
>
> So can anybody think of good names starting with one of bcdijkopqstwyz?
Please, no. As a peace offering I give the world "newx", or maybe just
plain "new". (I would have suggested "nextfs", but who knows what sort of
confusion that would cause with NeXTstep veterans.)
> David
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