topics 2009 summer and autumn

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 06:11:08PM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
> A topic that would actually relate to *Linux*, unlike pretty much all
> the others proposed, of late, might be titled:
> 
>  "Linux Filesystems in 2009"
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Linux_file_systems
> 
> - Yeah we support all kinds of legacy filesystems that most people
> won't care about...  (befs, minix, qnx4, sysv, msdos, hfs, ntfs, ufs,
> ...)
> 
> - Meat & potatoes (ext2, ext3, vfat, isofs)
> 
> - Network filesystems (nfs, 9p, afs, cifs, coda)
> 
> - Journalling-ish filesystems (xfs, jfs, reiserfs)
> 
> - Special purpose things (fuse, ecryptfs, squashfs, romfs, gfs2, jffs,
> jbd, jbd2, ufs)
> 
> - Up & coming (NILFS, ocfs2, ...)

btrfs (merged in 2.6.29 and probably the most interesting new filesystem
in linux ever).  Not quite ready for production use yet.

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Len Sorensen
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