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[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Matthew Saltzman wrote:

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> It's even worse than that.  Not only is the term "root" overloaded,
> the term "filesystem" is overloaded.  There's *the* filesystem for a
> running system.  That starts at / (the root directory of what I'll
> call The Filesystem) and is organized as a tree of directories,
> where some subtrees might be filesystems in themselves (inserted in
> the hierarchy by the mount command).

to avoid confusion, i tend to refer to that collective as the linux
file and directory "hierarchy."  i would, as much as possible, not use
the term "filesystem" in that overloaded sense since, as you point
out, it's just begging for confusion.

rday

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