From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Subject: [TUHS] Early non-Unix filesystems?
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 22:26:56 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160318022656.5A6D718C095@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)
> From: Johnny Billquist
> I would think that something like Multics had something similar
No, as far as I know, Multics was always 'old-style' - the directory contained
not just the name of the file, but also all the file's meta-data. Multics had
only symbolic links, I'm pretty sure.
To answer the original question, I can't think offhand of another system that
separated naming and file meta-data before Unix did it. I've always assumed
that that was one of Unix' novel ideas.
Noel
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