Re: [Gnu-arch-users] planning 2.0?

[Mark Flacy]

On 2006.04.21 06:18, Aldrik KLEBER wrote:
> Le Vendredi 21 Avril 2006 13:12, Ludovic Courtès a écrit :
> > Right, the archive format could probably be modified to be less
> > demanding on path length.
> >
> > That said, this really is a limitation, I'd even say a flaw, of
> the
> > underlying OS.  You wouldn't want to worry about 8.3 file names
> for
> > instance, would you?
> >
>
>
> The goal of writting a project, is that this project can be used.

Right.  The software world is not totally Microsoft Windows(TM) and  
gets less so every day.

IIRC, Microsoft Windows *used* to tout itself as POSIX compliant by  
fulfilling the minimum requirements of the spec at the time.

>  Next we are talking about how to store data for an RCS product, in  
> my view, it  is not normal that storage guide the design of a  
> software like a  RCS, because  it is not his work, this is OS work  
> or storage server work to watch  how data  should be stored.

If you use what is already there or otherwise guaranteed to be there  
by the POSIX spec, that's less software which you have to write and  
debug; you merely get and use a POSIX compliant OS.

The NTFS has assumptions in it which are wildly different from the  
specific subset of the Unix filesystems which I have used (that  
probably is not the majority of them).  The case-insensitive but  
case-preserving aspect of NTFS is absolutely maddening; the  
enforcement of the "no deletion while in use" policy provides many  
hours of debugging entertainment in a multi-threaded/multi-process  
environment as well as a demonstrated and obscene reduction in file  
manipulation capacity.

If you were building a house, you'd damned well be interested in the  
characteristics of the ground upon which you build it.  I don't want  
to build a house in a swamp, myself.

> Aldrik
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