Re: EFS in 2.3.2 ???

Matthew Kirkwood (weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Sun, 16 May 1999 19:39:24 +0100 (GMT)


On Sun, 16 May 1999, Riley Williams wrote:

> I note that the 2.3.2 kernel tree includes a new filesystem called
> EFS, but there is apparently no documentation on what it is - no
> entries in Configure.help and nothing elsewhere in the Documentation
> tree either...
>
> Does anybody know anything about this file system and what it's for?

It's the extent-based filesystem from Irix 5.x.

Interestingly, I don't see anything about it having to be read-only.
(Not that I looked too hard.) If it is read/write, how does it perform
against ext2?

Matthew.

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