From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] FS question
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 00:10:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <25d97172beeeb17194192531a1079a7c@caldo.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <opryfl5qnarveh1e@smtp.borf.com>
>>Why was putting the name in the metat good in 1987 but bad
>>in 1969?
actually the other way round (name and metadata in directory representation)
was more the norm in 1969 and later. the unix approach was unusual.
other systems had the equivalent of links only when something went
terribly wrong and aliased file or directory storage references. the unix structure was
quite cute really for minimalism, but it began to stumble over the boundaries
between file systems. to be fair, there were approximations to striping/mirroring drivers
not all that much later that eliminated the need to stumble so soon, but they weren't widely used.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-13 0:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-10 14:01 Brantley Coile
2003-11-10 15:07 ` Russ Cox
2003-11-10 17:14 ` Brantley Coile
2003-11-10 17:43 ` Russ Cox
2003-11-10 17:49 ` Sape Mullender
2003-11-11 1:47 ` Dennis Ritchie
2003-11-11 0:01 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-11-13 0:10 ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2003-11-10 16:40 ` Rob Pike
2003-11-10 17:09 ` Brantley Coile
2003-11-10 17:39 ` ron minnich
2003-11-11 2:30 bruce
2003-11-11 10:26 ` Bruce Ellis
2003-11-11 12:28 ` Lucio De Re
2003-11-12 11:13 ` Boyd Roberts
2003-11-12 19:55 ` Andrew Simmons
2003-11-12 20:17 ` Brantley Coile
2003-11-12 21:18 ` boyd, rounin
2003-11-12 21:16 ` boyd, rounin
2003-11-13 9:32 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2003-11-13 16:47 ` Dan Cross
2003-11-14 6:49 Andrew Simmons
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