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From: Dan Mack <mack@cs.umn.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Ideal filesystem
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 16:55:50 -0600
Organization: University of Minnesota
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Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> G Sumner Hayes <sumner+@CMU.EDU> wrote:
> ] Sorry for the second post in rapid succession in reply to the same
> ] thread, but I thought it a good idea to break the two apart.  If you
> ] were to start implementing a new general purpose filesystem under a
> ] Unix-like OS, what considerations would be important?  What features
> ] would you find absolutely necessary?  What would be nice to have?
> ]
> ] 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 . . .
> 

A journeling file system like SGI's XFS would be nice.