Thanks for the feedback. You're certainly right about where they fall
when configuring/compiling the kernel. I used that nomenclature more to
describe what they do - they enable Linux systems to access existing
PC/Mac filesystems rather than adding a new local/distributed filesystem
type to Linux itself. 

   Bill

On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 08:12, Donald Cowart wrote:
> On 7 Feb 2002, William von Hagen wrote:
> 
> >
> > I've gotten a lot of good information about JFS from the IBM site and
> > from archives of this list - thanks! I'm finally posting to solicit
> > feedback on my recently-published book on "Linux Filesystems" (SAMS,
> > ISBN 0672322722). This book discusses the use, theory, installation, and
> > integration of journaling and distributed filesystems on Linux, and also
> > discusses what I call 'filesystem adapters' - things like Samba, the NCP
> 
> I wouldn't really call them 'filesystem adapters', they are network
> filesystems at least when you compile the kernel that's what it calls
> them.
> 
> > tools, and netatalk, which graft together existing filesystems from
> > multiple platforms. The book talks about the JFS, Ext3, ReiserFS, and
> <snip>
> > Thanks!
> >
> >   Bill von Hagen
> >
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> --Donald
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