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From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] FS question
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Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:39:44 -0700
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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