To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: A few FS notions
Message-ID: <19970430.164428.7559.0.chambersb@juno.com>
References: <9704301546 DOT ZM13817 AT caldera DOT com>
From: chambersb AT juno DOT com (Benjamin D Chambers)
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 19:37:58 EDT
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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:
- Control/access attributes
- Date/time stamps
- Size of file
- Size sum of all children (for directories)
- Who/what created/owns the file
- Security signature (password?)
- File type
- Descriptive data (icon/description string etc)

What I would like to request is:
- Node tree (versus FAT)
- Case sensitivity

Things I'm not sure about, but sound interesting:
- Date/time stamps of creation AND last modification
- Home node always searched (similar to path, just load your symlinks
here) (not necessarily FS, more of OS I guess but, hey, could be like a
symlink or something :)
- Node-include links (a link to all the files in the target directory,
instead of a link to the directory itself)
- Required packages

Anything else?  Let's brainstorm, here :)

...Chambers