Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Jun 1999 02:09:11 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: (reiserfs) Re: I discussed reading directories as files with jra, Stallman, and loic |
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On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> Pavel Machek writes: > > [somebody, likely Hans Reiser] > > >> Jeremy wants in the FS what he can get with Microsoft streams and > >> Macintosh forks. That is, he wants to be able to name an object, and > >> read it, and get something, and he wants to be able to add something > >> that goes into that object, and stays with it when the object gets moved. > >> He wants this because he is a Samba author, and it will make his life a > >> lot easier to have it when Windows 2000 comes out. > > > > Oops. Should not he do it himself? This will make samba non-portable > > and what is worse samba will not run on ext2. > > There are several answers to that... > > Samba remains portable, minus Windows 2000 emulation. > It is easy to enhance ext2 in the same way. > If ext2 and BSD don't evolve, they die. Problem?
Or NT will eventually die. Much more desirable outcome, IMO. It's definitely inferior design. Remember, every self-appointed UNIX-killer ate flaming death and UNIX is alive and well. Where is VMS? Where is OS/2? Where is (spit) MacOS? Exactly. They boast. They suck. They die. It is that simple. NT will follow them, just give it some time. New "UNIX-killer" will appear, only to follow the previous ones. Who cares?
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