From: Hans Aberg (haberg@math.su.se)
Date: Sun Nov 27 2005 - 23:17:30 CST
On 28 Nov 2005, at 01:09, Philippe Verdy wrote:
> ... the POSIX hierarchical filesystem has severe limitations, and
> work is going on to support multiple navigable dimensions in a
> filesystem by allowing as many meta-data as needed on any file,
> each one acting as a new dimension.
Those things are likely to be implemented on top of the simpler UNIX
filesystem. It is simply too difficult to rework UNIX itself to a
more complicated filesystem. It has to do with keeping the filesystem
efficient and consistent, which requires a great deal of tricky low
level programming.
Hans Aberg
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