From:	"Tim Bird" <tbird AT caldera DOT com>
Message-Id:	<9705011129.ZM8480@caldera.com>
Date:	Thu, 1 May 1997 11:29:21 -0600
In-Reply-To:	chambersb@juno.com (Benjamin D Chambers)
	"Re: A few FS notions" (Apr 30, 7:37pm)
References:	<9704301546 DOT ZM13817 AT caldera DOT com>
	<19970430 DOT 164428 DOT 7559 DOT 0 DOT chambersb AT juno DOT com>
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: A few FS notions
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Benjamin D Chambers wrote:
>
> On Wed, 30 Apr 1997 15:46:13 -0600 "Tim Bird" <tbird AT caldera DOT com> writes:
> [a lot of stuff - read the original message, I try not to quote things
> that long]
>
> Okay, so what you are suggesting is that directory entries contain the
> following things for files:

Yes (kind of).  Logically these attributes would be associated with a file
(as if they came from the directory entry).  Physically, I would store
them not in the dir entry but in a separate data file in the file system.
Note that this would require a new file scanning call in the OS, to
retrieve a reference to this other file (and/or a call to get an attribute
value by name).

> - Control/access attributes
> - Date/time stamps
[etc.]

Tim Bird

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