From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] FS question
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:39:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0311101037150.5610-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <opryflx2vjrveh1e@smtp.borf.com>
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Brantley Coile wrote:
> I was just trying to gain insight into how the FS got
> to where it is.
If you think about a PDP-11 or earlier machine, 64 KB address space, and
you look at the file system that ran at that time, the whole i-number and
links thing was a pretty reasonable and efficient way to go. It's really
remarkable that it all worked out so well.
Funny note: At the time lots of people were arguing that a hierarchical
file system was impossibly inefficient, believe it or not. For example, HP
at the time offered a file system with two (2, yes 2) levels of directory;
that's all you got. (this is in the 70s)
It just doesn't make sense nowadays.
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-10 17:39 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
2003-11-10 16:40 ` Rob Pike
2003-11-10 17:09 ` Brantley Coile
2003-11-10 17:39 ` ron minnich [this message]
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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