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From: "Mark Habersack" <grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
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To: Tim Bird <tbird AT caldera DOT com>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 13:21:44 +0100
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Subject: Re: File system ideas
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References: <199704230333 DOT PAA26913 AT cantua DOT canterbury DOT ac DOT nz> from "Mr M S Aitchison" at Apr 23, 97 03:33:52 pm
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Once upon a time (on 23 Apr 97 at 14:59) Tim Bird said:

> > (5) Design a totally new file system that requires very little RAM 
> >     yet is efficient (to be very efficient it might want more RAM), and
> >     capable of storing just about any extended attributes, ACL
> >     permissions, etc. If anybody wants to discuss details I have some
> >     ideas (which I'd love to simulate, if anybody has flexible software
> >     for the job).
> 
> I've been toying with attributed file system ideas for a few years now.
> Combining a general attribute system with file system monitors (triggered
> and monitored events) you could do some fairly interesting things.  I'd be
> willing to discuss ideas with you.
Please post your ideas and I'm sure we will come up with something really 
clever. Lately I was looking at the NTFS system which seems to be one of the 
few things Micro$loth designed well. It has two things I consider very 
useful: ACL permissions (as Alaric stated befor) and per-file compression. 
Having such a *free* system would be a great thing. The FS monitoring looks 
like a very powerful feature (yet I still think that it *might* be slow in 
everyday use).
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