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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!news.ac.net!news.serv.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!admaix.sunydutchess.edu!ees1a0.engr.ccny.cuny.edu!scisun!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!shelby.visix.com!stevek From: stevek@visix.com (Steve Kiernan) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Ideal filesystem Date: 11 Mar 1996 18:58:36 GMT Organization: Visix Software, Inc. Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4i1t4s$muj@shelby.visix.com> References: <4gejrb$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> NNTP-Posting-Host: gto X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:19223 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:15349 Arcadio Alivio Sincero (lotu@wam.umd.edu) wrote: : edu> : 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? Well, you could do what OS/2 does for EAs on a FAT system. It creates a file which has the EAs for each file in the directory, since FAT can't handle the EAs in the file list. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen J. Kiernan stevek@visix.com kiernasj@wckn.dorm.clarkson.edu -----------------------------------------------------------------------------