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SubjectRe: albods are not a clean set of orthogonal primitives (was Re: File systems are semantically impoverished compared to database and keyword systems: it is time to change!)

What Linus says here is one (core) component of what we want to do.

This discussion has reached the point where I want to write some code
now....

The Mad Killer

Alexander Viro writes:
>
>
> On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > I really think the thing should be something like just
> >
> > lookup("default");
> >
> > Remember: it would be implemented as if it was an implied symlink, so you
> > can move them around and do whatever to them, it's just that there would
> > bea shorthand for opening a special name under the directory.
> >
> > And it is ONLY a shorthand. Nothing more.
>
> *That* is 100% OK with me. Somehow I suspect that it's not the thing asked
> by, ahem, innovators on a killing spree... BTW, we don't need a special fs
> for that - it can be done right now on ext2. I don't see the point of
> exercise, but it's not too terrible bloat.
>
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