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From: "-= ArkanoiD =-" <ark AT mpak DOT convey DOT ru>
Date: Thu,  1 May 97 06:43:52 +0300
Subject: Re: A few FS notions
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nuqneH,

> Subject: Re: A few FS notions
> 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

..and last access (incl. read).

> - 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 :)
>
ACLs and ACL-initiated events!
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