Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: fsync on large files | Date | Wed, 17 Feb 1999 18:45:11 +0000 (GMT) |
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> I would also suggest that Stephen actually drop ext2 altogether. There's > just too much historical stuff in most filesystems - things like having > "." and ".." in directories, even though Linux doesn't need them and they
ext2 is a multiplatform file system. Linux, HURD, BSD, OS/2, RiscOS last time I checked.
> only complicate renaming and loopback mounting a lot. There's also a lot > of code to handle concurrent writes etc, which can't happen any more.
But will need to occur for future scaling.
> doing a new filesystem, it should be done like "ext2" was originally done: > by designing a new one, rather than building more scaffolding on top of an > old one.
Linux has a lot of cruft in it maybe while doing journalling we should throw the OS away and rewrite that too ? - I hope Im misunderstanding your argument.
Alan
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