Re: ext3 vs. JFS file locations...

2000-11-06 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 09:53:41PM -0500, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > The journalling layer for ext3 is not a filesystem by itself. > It is generic journalling code. So, even if IBM did not have > any jfs code, the name would be wrong. Indeed, and the jfs layer will be renamed "jbd" at som

Re: ext3 vs. JFS file locations...

2000-11-05 Thread James Sutherland
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > Dominik Kubla writes: > > On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 11:33:10AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > [about IBM's JFS and ext3 both wanting to put code in fs/jfs] > > >> How about naming it something that doesn't end in -fs, such as > >> "journal" or "jfs

Re: ext3 vs. JFS file locations...

2000-11-04 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Dominik Kubla writes: > On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 11:33:10AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: [about IBM's JFS and ext3 both wanting to put code in fs/jfs] >> How about naming it something that doesn't end in -fs, such as >> "journal" or "jfsl" (Journaling Filesystem Layer?) > > Why? I'd rather renam

Re: ext3 vs. JFS file locations...

2000-11-04 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Dominik Kubla wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 11:33:10AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > > How about naming it something that doesn't end in -fs, such as > > "journal" or "jfsl" (Journaling Filesystem Layer?) > > > > Why? I'd rather rename IBM's jfs to ibmjfs and be done with it. > > You

Re: ext3 vs. JFS file locations...

2000-11-03 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Andreas Dilger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Michael Boman writes: > > It seems like both IBM's JFS and ext3 wants to use fs/jfs .. IMHO that > > is like asking for problem.. A more logic location for ext3 should be > > fs/ex

Re: ext3 vs. JFS file locations...

2000-11-03 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 03:38:56PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > [..] while thats very > sensible [..] Not that it matters much but jfs means "journalling filesystem" and fs/jfs isn't a filesystem in the ext3 patch, so it doesn't look that sensible to me. Andrea - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: ext3 vs. JFS file locations...

2000-11-03 Thread Andreas Dilger
Michael Boman writes: > It seems like both IBM's JFS and ext3 wants to use fs/jfs .. IMHO that > is like asking for problem.. A more logic location for ext3 should be > fs/ext3, no? Actually, if you would look in linux/fs, you will see that ext3 IS in linux/fs/ext3. However, there is a second co

Re: ext3 vs. JFS file locations...

2000-11-03 Thread Alan Cox
> It seems like both IBM's JFS and ext3 wants to use fs/jfs .. IMHO that > is like asking for problem.. A more logic location for ext3 should be > fs/ext3, no? fs/jfs is the general purpose journalling layer. Of course while thats very sensible it does clash with the ibm jfs. Maybe fs/journalling

ext3 vs. JFS file locations...

2000-11-03 Thread Michael Boman
Hi Gurus, I was trying to build a super-big kernel with allot of Journaling File System inside it to try out what is best for us to use. Now, I encountered a problem.. It seems like both IBM's JFS and ext3 wants to use fs/jfs .. IMHO that is like asking for problem.. A more logic location for ex