Re: What is Original idea/concept in LINUX ?

[Athena <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, keky_uswest.net wrote:

> Anyone, Name one Original idea/concept which is UNIQUE and
> implemented in LINUX OS only ? Anything in Security, UI, network
> architecture etc.,
> 
> e.g., X was an original idea from MIT. NFS from SUN.
> SAMBA is not, it is just a reimplementation.
> ReiserFS is just another implementation of Journalizing
> File System!. 
> 
> Best answer gets US$10.00.  Winner will be notified
> by e-mail and how to get the MONEY.
> 
> Cheers,
> Keky Robertson
> 
        Coda (distributed file system) is an original idea from Carnegie
Mellon University which is implemented in Linux only ( by the guys from
CMU).
        

 
A correction - 
       ReiserFS is not just an implementation of Journaling FS (In fact
journaling was added only later on -- fsck on their FS was damn slow and
not so reliable)
       It uses balanced tree, files need not be block aligned. (the join
or cluster small files together and save space ,might improve performance
because a single  block read can read more than a file , it is object
oriented  -- to name a few features --  there is a nice
artice in reiserfs site  (www.devlinux.com/projects/reiserfs).

-George Samuel

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