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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!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Hanover.Germany.EU.net!Hamburg.Germany.EU.net!nuki.NetUSE.de!white.schulung.netuse.de!kris From: kris@schulung.netuse.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kristian_K=F6hntopp?=) Subject: Re: Ideal filesystem Sender: kris@white.schulung.netuse.de (Kristian Koehntopp) Organization: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?entf=E4llt?= Message-ID: <Dos6H1.ED7@white.schulung.netuse.de> References: <4hptj4$cf4@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <3140C968.20699696@netcom.com> <4isubc$ri9@floyd.sw.oz.au> <4itvde$492@narses.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 16:43:49 GMT X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 1996 Kristian Koehntopp -- All rights reserved. Lines: 14 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:19876 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:15880 fachat@physik.tu-chemnitz.de (Andre Fachat) writes: >The only thing we have to do is > - create a new file flag to indicate 'hidden directory executable' To match with the UNIX approach, this flag has to be stored in the directory entry, not in the i-node. Otherwise a call like readdir() would have to read the i-nodes of all files it is listing, which is very slow. So what is wrong with extensions? Kristian -- Kristian Koehntopp, Wassilystrasse 30, 24113 Kiel, +49 431 688897 Fachbegriffe der Informatik einfach erklaert, Teil 4: "Garbage Collection" == "Windows 95"