Filesystems, etc. (Re: Amiga Unix and A3000UX announcement)

[Mike "Ford" Ditto]

guy at 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.

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