From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932097AbZGOPZc (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:25:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755397AbZGOPZb (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:25:31 -0400 Received: from sh.osrg.net ([192.16.179.4]:57707 "EHLO sh.osrg.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755391AbZGOPZa (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:25:30 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:25:26 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <20090716.002526.93465395.ryusuke@osrg.net> To: leon.woestenberg@gmail.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Why does NILFS2 hide under Miscellaneous filesystems? From: Ryusuke Konishi In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (sh.osrg.net [192.16.179.4]); Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:25:26 +0900 (JST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:11:21 +0200, Leon Woestenberg wrote: > Hello, > > just wondering, any reasons why NILFS2 is one of the miscellaneous > filesystems and, for example, btrfs, is not in Kconfig? > > Regards, > -- > Leon I heard this question from several people, and now I feel I should have put nilfs outside the misc filesystem category. Actually, nilfs is NOT a filesystem came from other operating system, but a filesystem created purely for Linux. Nor is it a flash filesystem but that for generic block devices. So, If nobody objects, I would like to queue a patch to move it outside the misc category. Anybody comments? Thanks, Ryusuke Konishi