Re: Journaled FS

Andrea Arcangeli (arcangel@cs.unibo.it)
Wed, 17 Jun 1998 12:14:18 +0200 (MET DST)


On 17 Jun 1998, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Followup to: <Pine.HPP.3.96.980616171511.15372A-100000@ixion.honeywell.com>
> By author: Shawn Leas <sleas@ixion.honeywell.com>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > It seems like an oportune time to ask if anyone has been working on a
> > journaled FS for Linux.
> >
>
> Stephen Tweedie is working on a journalling version of ext2, and there
> is an advanced filesystem called reiserfs under development (a
> tree-structured filesystem, similar to Network Appliance's WAFL.)

I hope fs developers will remeber to use at least 32bit to store major and
minor numbers (instead of only 16bit) while projecting the newfs (to
remove the need of devfs).

Andrea[s] Arcangeli

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