Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Sep 1998 16:35:18 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: metafile, undeletion, unix->simpleFS |
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Hi!
> Oh! so much talk about the above subjects. Why not just kill every bird > with one stone and create VSlowFS which has support for: > > . filesystem layering (Unix->simple) > . per file metafile resources (think perl's __DATA__) > . undeletion (actually, lets fall back to VMS and do a built in RCS type > versioning with each file; undeletion would happen > automatically)
Undeletion is easily done with userspace library and LD_PRELOAD.
> . per file/directory compression (why the hell not?)
This has been done, and it does not seem to slow down ext2 (should appear in 2.3.?)
> . acl's (yeah, just part of metafile info, actually)
...as Ted said, this in someone experimental tree.
Pavel -- I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).
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