Re: Journaled FS
Richard Gooch (Richard.Gooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU)
Wed, 17 Jun 1998 22:58:09 +1000
Andrea Arcangeli writes:
> 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).
The need for devfs remains irrespective of whether we have large
device numbers. There are a number of reasons why devfs is required.
See: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/devfs.txt for why.
Regards,
Richard....
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