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From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 22:26:56 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [TUHS] Early non-Unix filesystems?
Message-ID: <20160318022656.5A6D718C095@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>

    > 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