Re: Let's make ext2fs into lfs (Was: Is anyone using EXT FS)

Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Thu, 21 Mar 1996 10:12:07 +0000 (GMT)


> hfs is gone for sure...
> It's HP-UX hiersomthingorother.

Macintosh as well

Just a few of the names already taken ...........

AFS - Amiga file system , Andrew File System
BULLET - Amoeba file server filing system
CFS - Crypto File System
COHERENT - Coherent v7 like FS
DFS - DCE file system, BBC micro disk file system
DOS - DOS fs
EXTFS - Linux extfs
EXT2FS - Linux ext2fs
FAT - Name for the DOS fs
FFS - Amiga fast file system, sometimes used instead of UFS for
the BSD fast file system.
HFS - MAC Heirarchical file system
HPFS - OS/2 high performance file system
IFS - Inheriting file system
ISO9660 - CD-ROM file system
JFS - Journalling File System
LFS - BSD log structured file system
MINIX - Minix file system (minixfs1/2)
NCPFS - Linux netware file server access.
NFS - Network File System
NTFS - NT Filesystem
OFS - Sometimes used for the older Amiga filesystem
PROC - /proc virtual file system
RFS - System 5 remote file system
RockRidge - Extensions to the ISO9660 CD-ROM file system.
S51K - System 5 file system, 1K blocks. V7 derivative.
SMB - Lan manager/W4WG etc network file system.
UFS - BSD file system
USERFS - Linux user file system
V7 - V7 filing system - like S51K with 512 byte blocks
VFS - Generic name for the linux virtual file system layer
XFS
XIAFS - Linux xia fs