Ralph Shumaker wrote:
I know little about this topic, very little, but I thought you were the
one nitpicking (in reverse) when you glossed over his statement that
pipes are not merely different filesystems.
No. I'm pointing out that "the arrangement of blocks on a disk" is not
what makes a file system. Why is the pipe system not a file system? How
about FIFOs? How about unix-domain sockets? Are those file systems, or
parts thereof? How about sockets, or Ameoba's file servers, or NFS? What
about Eros, where all files are stored in memory?
To claim there's a hard and fast cut-off between some of those and
others of those is, I think, erroneous. Certainly you can make a
definition that says "these are file systems, those aren't", but such a
distinction is artificial, and inappropriate to the discussion at hand.
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