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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!kalessin From: Adam Megacz <kalessin@netcom.com> Subject: Re: Ideal filesystem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <314E0C7B.28973498@netcom.com> Sender: kalessin@netcom5.netcom.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) 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. <4hptj4$cf4@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <4i1t4s$muj@shelby.visix.com> <31462C1C.686CE00F@netcom.com> <4if8j6$4kh@park.uvsc.edu> <314C8736.27CE1E1D@netcom.com> <wsenqqx10e.fsf@orcus.ping.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 01:23:07 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; Linux 1.2.13 i486) Lines: 32 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:19660 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:15657 Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > > Hi, > > >>>>> In article <314C8736.27CE1E1D@netcom.com>, > >>>>> Adam Megacz <kalessin@netcom.com> writes: > > Adam> Terry Lambert wrote: > > >> This is a strawman. Whether it creates fragmentation is a > >> function of the hosting FS. For DOS, it creates fragmentation; > >> for a modern FS, that really isn't a problem. > > Adam> But when you store all the EA's in a single file, [...] > > Who would want that? We do that for permissions (and long names) under > umsdos and it is, well -- a hack. > > But in a new design... Something like associating a second list of > blocks (containing extended metadata, or EAs, call it what you like) > with an inode. Right. That's exactly what I was advocating. My posting was mainly to discourage modeling Linux's EA's after OS/2-FAT's EA's (all in one file). - Adam -- Adam Megacz <kalessin@netcom.com> Website ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/ka/kalessin/adam.html Linux - OS/2