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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Ideal filesystem
Date: 21 Mar 1996 09:35:40 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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ges@EARTH.baylor.edu (Pyramids-R-Us) wrote:
] >1) Application icon information
]
] I gave up on using icons....
The rest of us haven't; our customer's want GUI's, and they're
willing to dump UNIX in the toilet for an MS OS to get one.
] >2) Desktop position information for an icon
]
] This is not good for a multi-user environment. No two users will want
] icons in the same place.
This is not a good argument. One could just as easily have an
attribute per user.
] >5) Name/location attribution so that they don't end up as
] > an inode number in lost and found: with full referential
] > integrity, fsck can put the files back where they belong.
]
] To do this right would mean altering this data whenever a user did a
] 'ln', even when that user does not own the file
I don't see you objecting to this type of alteration (ie: the
link count in the on disk inode) on links in existing file
systems... like quota files, this is under FS control. It's
not relevant.
] >7) Creator application information, so that a document can
] > "know" the application needed to access it, and a desktop
] > reference to it will cause the *right* application to be
] > invoked, with the document as an argument (what Windows
] > 95 laugahably does using file extensions).
]
] Problem A: What would be stored? Surely something better than the
] four letter codes used on the Mac. How would you tell the difference
] between the system copy of 'foo' and the new version of foo that I put
] in my home directory
Your path. 8-).
] Problem B: What is the *right* application in the first place? I
] unix there is often a speration between the program used to modify a
] file and the program used to view/act on the file. If I double click
] on a man file should I get the editor used to create it or wil I get
] the man page viewer.
Attribution is by register file type. Preferred applciation for
a given file type is a problem for the desktop manager. 8-).
] >8) ACL's (Access Control Lists), ala VMS, to allow finer
] > graing control over file access, beyond simple "groups"
] > or "exclusion groups".
]
] The ext2 filesystem already has feilds for this. unfortuatly they
] aren't used yet
Too small for any reall extensive use. 8-(.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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