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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Mon, 10 Aug 1998 17:59:58 -0500 (EST), Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> said:

> KERNFS urm... this works, why is not used/installed by default?

Um, because it serves no useful function?

It's mostly there as an example of what a simple but non-trivial
filesystem needs to implement.

-GAWollman

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