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- From: bogstad@moon-lite.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad)
- Subject: Re: Filesystems for people providing packets
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.041515.22708@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
- References: <1993Jan24.032251.22453@umibox.hanse.de> <5DVZXB5w165w@kf8nh.wariat.org> <C1HAHE.30M@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 04:15:15 GMT
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- In article <C1HAHE.30M@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall) writes:
- >kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
- >>I doubt "thousands" of people run xiafs/extfs instead of minix fs.
- >
- >Considering the rate at which Linux is spreading, and the percentage of
- >local users that I know are using the extfs (namely all of them) I think
- >that mere 'thousands' is underestimating the number severely..
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- When the author of extfs stops calling it "alpha" and the
- programs to manipulate such filesystems are part of all standard distributions
- and they use extfs as their default, then I probably won't use it at all.
- I have enough alpha level code in my kernel as it is...
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- Bill Bogstad
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