Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 01, 2004 03:28 PM
Ext2/Ext3 filesystems are supported by FreeBSD NetBSD.. and Linux(the<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.. includes some Unixs too)
Basicly Ext2 and Ext3 is not Linux due to it being a part in many other Operating Systems. Basicly there is almost no Filesystem that is Linux own. Basicly some other Operating system will access it. Most windows Ext2 drivers I have seen are either build from scratch or build from the OpenBSD source(Ext2/Ext3 specs are completely Open any company can write a driver to use it).
If it has Ext2 and Ext3 support Say that. Basicly that is what linux has Ext2/Ext3/... Support. A linux system is most commonly Installed on Ext3 but there are many other filesystems that work just fine in it Support List. Note if a better filesystem comes a long and a driver is created for Linux there will be a distro somewhere using it.
Note FreeBSD has elf support allowing it to run linux apps. Note the wording. That Elf format was created by Sun microsystems and Linux just happens to use it. As you will find with most parts in linux that there open standards created by other groups and used because they are the best fit for the job. So by claiming Linux Extentions in a lot of cases you can be cutting out IP credit that the ones who made that standard are due.
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Problem Ext2/Ext3 Is Not Linux
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 01, 2004 03:28 PMBasicly Ext2 and Ext3 is not Linux due to it being a part in many other Operating Systems. Basicly there is almost no Filesystem that is Linux own. Basicly some other Operating system will access it. Most windows Ext2 drivers I have seen are either build from scratch or build from the OpenBSD source(Ext2/Ext3 specs are completely Open any company can write a driver to use it).
If it has Ext2 and Ext3 support Say that. Basicly that is what linux has Ext2/Ext3/... Support. A linux system is most commonly Installed on Ext3 but there are many other filesystems that work just fine in it Support List. Note if a better filesystem comes a long and a driver is created for Linux there will be a distro somewhere using it.
Note FreeBSD has elf support allowing it to run linux apps. Note the wording. That Elf format was created by Sun microsystems and Linux just happens to use it. As you will find with most parts in linux that there open standards created by other groups and used because they are the best fit for the job. So by claiming Linux Extentions in a lot of cases you can be cutting out IP credit that the ones who made that standard are due.
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