On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Matthew Saltzman wrote: ... snip ... > 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 -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================
