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Re: Arla XFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Albert D. Cahalan)
Tue Mar 30 11:54:03 1999
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From: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
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Subject: Re: Arla XFS
To: map@stacken.kth.se (Magnus Ahltorp)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 00:03:16 -0500 (EST)
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>> Linux runs on SGI hardware, where the "XFS" filesystem is common.
>> Your use of the "XFS" name will create lots of confusion. People will
>> try "mount -t xfs /dev/sda1 /sgifiles" to read their XFS disks.
>> I hope you will reconsider the name. How about "arla" instead?
>
> The name xfs as we use it is many years old, and the file system was
> created by Björn Grönvall <bg@sics.se>. If you have any complaints,
SGI has used "XFS" for many years. I'd guess SGI's XFS is more common
than your XFS.
> please contact arla-drinkers@stacken.kth.se. The name is not going to
> be changed. It is even registered as a device in the Linux device
> allocation list.
>
> We run Arla on SGI hardware too, on IRIX, and probably Linux.
So, what do you call the layer when you run it on IRIX?
Surely you can't have two filesystems with the same name.
> By the way, you said exactly this in November 1997.
Yes, and I am still horrified that you create such confusion.
I can't imagine why you would want to cause confusion.
