Re: Why is it called "extended filesystem"
In article <[🔎] 003701c133a7$9a9e38a0$3bba09ca@client4>,
<shyamk@eth.net> wrote:
>Why is the native filesystem of Linux called "Extende filesystem " ?
Linux originally came with (a clone of ) the Minix filesystem.
Then some people developed the Extended File System. I'm not
sure who they were, but probably Remi Card and Theodore Tso.
As opposed to the Linux filesystem, it for example had support for
filenames longer than 14 characters. File system type was 'ext'. At the
same time, Frank Xia created xiafs. Both were wildely used.
Then additional development went into the Extended File System
and what came out of that was the Extended File System, version 2,
which we now know simply as 'ext2'.
The 'ext' and 'xia' filesystem drivers were deleted from the kernel
source a long time ago because nobody maintained them anymore and
everybody ("everybody" not being that many people back then) had
switched to ext2.
Ah, there's some info on the web as well. Searching for
'linux extended file system history' on google gives eg
http://mm.iit.uni-miskolc.hu/Data/texts/Linux/SAG/node76.html
Mike.
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