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- From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.arch.storage,comp.unix.internals
- Subject: Re: Extent-based Filesystems (was: Large Application data sets )
- Message-ID: <33259@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 01:10:20 GMT
- References: <1992Jul13.090423.20408@metapro.DIALix.oz.au <33120@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1992Jul21.113652.4898@metapro.DIALix.oz.au> <1992Jul22.194214.20451@sequent.com>
- Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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- dafuller@sequent.com (David Fuller) writes:
- >>Who implements extent-based filesystems commercially? How
- >>does it compare with the alternatives?
-
- >Well, CP/M had an extent-based file system.
-
- So did TRSDOS and NewDOS/80.
-
- >Every proprietary OS I can think of has strongly typed files and that
- >means extenting.
-
- AmigaDos doesn't have typed files or extents (though I quite strongly
- plan to implement extents in it when I get enough free hours (and enough
- aspirin to cover the headaches of trying to debug coroutines...))
-
- --
- "Rev on the redline, you're on your own; seems like a lifetime, but soon it's
- gone..." Foreigner
- -
- Randell Jesup, Jack-of-quite-a-few-trades, Commodore Engineering.
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- Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion.
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