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Make a file system that presents an index/annotation file for each
regular file. Doug McIlroy proposed this many years ago, but as far
as I know it's never been implemented.

-rob


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Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 15:34:30 -0700

>There are free bits in Qid.type.

Certainly Rstat.stat.qid.type does help, but what would one do with things
like title/author/copyright information in a non-hacked way?

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