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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!newsfeed.pitt.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!sumner+ From: G Sumner Hayes <sumner+@CMU.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Ideal filesystem Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 01:31:37 -0500 Organization: Misc. student, Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 19 Message-ID: <glDH59i00YUvFFjspX@andrew.cmu.edu> 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> <4hirl9$nr7@gizmo.nas.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: po9.andrew.cmu.edu In-Reply-To: <4hirl9$nr7@gizmo.nas.nasa.gov> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:18560 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:14804 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 . . . Also, what serious efforts to create newer and better filesystems are currently taking place in the FreeBSD/Linux/NetBSD communities? TTFN, Sumner Hayes sumner+@cmu.edu