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From: stevek@visix.com (Steve Kiernan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Ideal filesystem
Date: 11 Mar 1996 18:58:36 GMT
Organization: Visix Software, Inc.
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Arcadio Alivio Sincero (lotu@wam.umd.edu) wrote:
: 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?

Well, you could do what OS/2 does for EAs on a FAT system.  It creates a file
which has the EAs for each file in the directory, since FAT can't handle the
EAs in the file list.

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