On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Leif Sawyer wrote:
> ELF? Heck, I survived Minix->Xia->Ext2/3
>
> XiaFS.. hahah.
>
> wow. That's some historical right there. Don't remember
> why I went with Xia at the time instead of ext, but iirc
> it was better in some fashion, and didn't have the crashes
> that the ext series was prone to.
>
> I had to download 2.0 just so I could remember the name of
> that fs.
Last year I had to quite using minix for ramdisks for booting Linux on
a ppc64 because of a bug. :-P Now I'm using ext2. My migration went from
minix->ext2->xfs. Never used XiaFS. The wiki says it came out at the same
time as ext2 in '93. I'm thinking the war was nearly over by the time I
started using Linux.
> Interesting note: 2.0.1 ~ 4Mb, while 2.6.17.13 ~ 40Mb
:-P Don't get me started. I was happy with the stability of the kernels in
the 2.0 & 2.2 days, angry in the 2.4 days (finally got some stability after
2.4.11, but still had to patch the kernel for XFS support), and beside
myself in the 2.6 days. But, to get virtualization support on IBM POWER5
platforms I've had to choice but to join the bleeding edge.
I *really* wish they'd start a 2.7 series and quit buggering up 2.6 with
major disruptive changes.
--Arthur Corliss
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