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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!paperboy.wellfleet.com!news3.near.net!news.ner.bbnplanet.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.bctel.net!news.cyberstore.ca!skypoint.com!umn.edu!newsstand.tc.umn.edu!usenet From: Dan Mack <mack@cs.umn.edu> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Ideal filesystem Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 16:55:50 -0600 Organization: University of Minnesota Lines: 17 Message-ID: <31435DF6.31F138BB@cs.umn.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> <glDH59i00YUvFFjspX@andrew.cmu.edu> <4ht0r9$dfi@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs-line13.cs.umn.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; Linux 1.3.72 i586) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:19225 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:15351 Terry Lambert wrote: > > G Sumner Hayes <sumner+@CMU.EDU> wrote: > ] 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 . . . > A journeling file system like SGI's XFS would be nice.