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- From: aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP (Andy Glew)
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- I am wondering what aspects of the POSIX standard impose
- constraints upon unusual implementations of the filesystem.
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- Eg. instead of UNIX's directories containing lists of names
- and inodes, what about a filesystem that was basically just
- a big hash table of the entire path - directories simply being
- entries required to be present before subsidiary files are
- created, not actually containing the names of subsidiary files.
- Is there anything in POSIX that would prevent this?
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- Eg2. is the extra level of indirection filename->inode required,
- or is it possible simply to refuse links? And so on.
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- Andy "Krazy" Glew. Gould CSD-Urbana. USEnet: ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!aglew
- 1101 E. University, Urbana, IL 61801 ARPAnet: aglew@gswd-vms.arpa
-
- I always felt that disclaimers were silly and affected, but there are people
- who let themselves be affected by silly things, so: my opinions are my own,
- and not the opinions of my employer, or any other organisation with which I am
- affiliated. I indicate my employer only so that other people may account for
- any possible bias I may have towards my employer's products or systems.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 12, Number 24
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