From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <25d97172beeeb17194192531a1079a7c@caldo.demon.co.uk> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] FS question From: Charles Forsyth In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 00:10:21 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 885a636c-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >>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.