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- From: pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson)
- Subject: Re: lfs 0.6 --> "xfs"
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 09:04:39 GMT
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- mancus@carla.jsc.nasa.gov (Keith Mancus/MDSSC) writes:
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- >>It does, but there is already an "xfs". There's a paper in the latest
- >>issue of the X Resource which describes it. Here is the abstract...
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- > How about "lefs", for "Linux Extended File System"? Easy to pronounce,
- >very succinct, and clear.
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- Since all these Minix-FS based file systems are have just one new thing:
- the length of the filename (almost). Why not call them "minix32" for a
- minix filesystem with a 32character filename limit and etc. I mean, why
- invent new names for a filesystem that just is a slightly hacked version
- of a old one.
-
- /Peter
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- Peter Eriksson pen@lysator.liu.se
- Lysator Academic Computer Society ...!uunet!lysator.liu.se!pen
- University of Linkoping, Sweden I'm still bored. Flame me again.
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