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Re: File name conflict in current cvs automake
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:58:13AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
: Lars J Aas <larsa@sim.no> writes:
: > To be correct, it's AFS the problem relates to. If you create an AFS
: > partition on Linux you will probably have the same problem there, and if
: > you can have a UFS or some other filesystem under AmigaOS, you can
: > probably avoid this problem on AmigaOS too :)
:
: You may want to call that AmigaFS rather than AFS; that caused a real
: double-take at first, since AFS is case-sensitive. :) (AFS being the
: Andrew File System, a very widely used distributed file system product by
: the Transarc division of IBM, recently released as open source.)
It was a slip on my behalf. The Amiga filsystem is called Fast File
System (FFS). Hecking informed me that it goes by the acronym AFFS (if I
remember what he wrote correctly) when you compile the Linux kernel.
Lars J