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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: extended attributes
From: |
Aaron Bentley |
Subject: |
[Gnu-arch-users] Re: extended attributes |
Date: |
05 Jan 2004 16:51:41 -0500 |
On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 02:23, Tom Lord wrote:
> Classical unix filesystem semantics manage to surface a pretty
> abstractly clean model for a physically constrained process
> (filesystem implementation on a very broad class of tertiary storage
> devices). The next step up, to a fully transactional file system, is
> a _huge_ step.
Perhaps a fully transactional filesystem was never what was needed.
Maybe all that's needed is a variant of rename(2) that only changes the
number of links, atime and mtime.
> It's not very surprising -- the semantics come out of an
> implementation process which amounts to "Ok, like multics, except with
> a relentless focus on `what is that we can quickly (and actually)
> implement?'."
Well, yes. But some things that could be quickly implemented were not
because the need wasn't apparent.
Aaron
--
Aaron Bentley
Director of Technology
PanoMetrics, Inc.
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, Aaron Bentley, 2004/01/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, Chris Mason, 2004/01/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, Aaron Bentley, 2004/01/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, Thomas Zander, 2004/01/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes, Jan Hudec, 2004/01/06
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: extended attributes, Miles Bader, 2004/01/05
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: extended attributes, Tom Lord, 2004/01/05
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: extended attributes,
Aaron Bentley <=
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: extended attributes, Tom Lord, 2004/01/06
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: extended attributes, Aaron Bentley, 2004/01/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: extended attributes, Jan Hudec, 2004/01/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: extended attributes, Brian May, 2004/01/06
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