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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.sprintlink.net!news.aus.sig.net!news.cfi.org!zilker.net!kirchhof.com!psa.pencom.com!digdug.pswtech.com!news.fc.net!news.cais.net!chi-news.cic.net!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!news.graphics.cornell.edu!tuba.cit.cornell.edu!crux1!sl14 From: sl14@crux1.cit.cornell.edu (S. Lee) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Ideal filesystem Date: 8 Mar 1996 22:53:25 GMT Organization: Nekomi Institute of Technology Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4hqdp5$3i0@tuba.cit.cornell.edu> References: <4gejrb$ogj@floyd.sw.oz.au> <DnoqB4.2sy@pe1chl.ampr.org> <glDH59i00YUvFFjspX@andrew.cmu. <4hptj4$cf4@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.253.232.60 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:19028 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:15202 [posted and cc'd] In article <4hptj4$cf4@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>, Arcadio Alivio Sincero <lotu@wam.umd.edu> wrote: >G Sumner Hayes (sumner+@CMU.EDU) wrote: >: 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 . . . > > I'd like to see something similar to extended attributes like in >OS/2's HPFS for Linux. I'd like to make a OS/2 WorkPlace Shell workalike >for Linux and X, but I'm trying to figure out how to to emulate WPS's >object attributes for file objects (like icons, file descriptions, >etc.). Under OS/2's HPFS, icons and other attributes are made part of >the file via the extended attributes. How hard would something like this >be to add to ext2fs? Arrgh! Resource fork! (I personally don't mind one way or the other, but this is highly flammable material) To add more "heat" to this discussion: - Journaling - Sync metadata (is it done as an option already?) - Or better, delayed ordered writes to metadata - Transparent on-the-fly compression (you know, like... NTFS) - Utility to adjust size of partition dynamically (like MD, but more flexible) sl14@cornell.edu Witty .sig under construction.