ford@amix.commodore.com (Mike "Ford" Ditto) (02/11/91)
guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes: > You considered "/dev/fd" an uninteresting implementation detail, or you > considered the fact that it's done as a file system an uninteresting > implementation detail? Just the fact that it is done as a file system. Your comment pointed out that /dev/fd was left off the list of supported filesystems, and I did that because /dev/fd has nothing to do with filesystems, except as an implementation detail. I also left "namefs" off that list for the same reason, and left off "bfs" because it's not something anyone would actually want to "mkfs" or "mount". "namefs" is a scheme for "mounting" a file descriptor on an arbitrary name, a.k.a. "named streams". "bfs" is the "boot file system", a contiguous file system format optimized for reading by simple bootstrap loaders. It's meant to be used for the "/stand" directory, but we haven't done that yet. -=] Ford [=- "Like a pizza in the rain, (In Real Life: Mike Ditto) no one wants to take you home." ford@amix.commodore.com - David Byrne, "Loco de Amor" uunet!cbmvax!ditto ford@kenobi.commodore.com