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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!purdue!haven.umd.edu!cville-srv.wam.umd.edu!lotu From: lotu@wam.umd.edu (Arcadio Alivio Sincero) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Ideal filesystem Followup-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 8 Mar 1996 18:17:08 GMT Organization: University of Maryland College Park Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4hptj4$cf4@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> References: <4gejrb$ogj@floyd.sw.oz.au> <4gilab$97u@park.uvsc.edu> <4giqu8$aqk@park.uvsc.edu> <4gira2$a9d@park.uvsc.edu> <hpa.31321eee.I.use.Linux@freya.yggdrasil.com> <4h7t5i$qoh@park.uvsc.edu> <DnoqB4.2sy@pe1chl.ampr.org> <glDH59i00YUvFFjspX@andrew.cmu. NNTP-Posting-Host: rac5.wam.umd.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:18938 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:15124 edu> G Sumner Hayes (sumner+@CMU.EDU) wrote: : I'm considering the idea of implementing a new filesystem for one of : the free Unices, but I'd like to know how much room for improvement : there is over FFS/ext2fs and how daunting a task this would be. So : I'm looking more for a "realistic" ideal filesystem than an impossibly : perfect one, but difficult ideas are welcome . . . I'd like to see something similar to extended attributes like in OS/2's HPFS for Linux. I'd like to make a OS/2 WorkPlace Shell workalike for Linux and X, but I'm trying to figure out how to to emulate WPS's object attributes for file objects (like icons, file descriptions, etc.). Under OS/2's HPFS, icons and other attributes are made part of the file via the extended attributes. How hard would something like this be to add to ext2fs? -- =============================================================================== Arcadio Alivio Sincero, Jr. Sophomore, Computer Science Major at the University of Maryland at College Park Amateur competitive bodybuilder Email: lotu@wam.umd.edu, WWW: <coming soon to a web site near you!> "D.A.R.E. .... to keep cops off donuts."