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To: Dominik Kubla <dominik.kubla@uni-mainz.de>
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Subject: Re: ext3 vs. JFS file locations...
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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.
> 
> Yours,
>   Dominik Kubla
> 

Because -fs is usually used by filesystems itself.  Since the journaling
layer doesn't really have a publically visible name, it's easy to change.

	-hpa

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