Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 13:17:59 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Jesse Guardiani <jesse@wingnet.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GEOM portable filesystem abstraction? Message-ID: <20040520201759.GB10119@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <c8j3jg$12s$2@sea.gmane.org> References: <c8iu9o$jd9$1@sea.gmane.org> <20040520191910.GB28688@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <c8j24p$tqt$1@sea.gmane.org> <20040520200521.GA7963@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <c8j3jg$12s$2@sea.gmane.org>
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--9zSXsLTf0vkW971A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 04:14:40PM -0400, Jesse Guardiani wrote: > Brooks Davis wrote: >=20 > [...] >=20 > > Ideally you'd like a file system that was fast, portable, and > > maintainable. I'm not sure all three are really feasiable unless you're > > really careful about defining portable so the OSes in question have a > > decent set of common VM semantics available with reasionable overhead. > > That's not to say we can't dream or that research shouldn't be done in > > this are, but I think we're definatly in research land here. >=20 > Sure. I'm just surprised that this idea hasn't been researched more to da= te. > The current proliferation of portable storage devices is bound to generate > critical mass for this sort of technology soon (if it hasn't already). >=20 > I'm surprised that device manufacturers haven't sponsored this kind of > research yet. Since for most of them, all the word is a windows box except for a few annoying nuts running MacOS or Linux, FAT seems to be good enough for them. :-( -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --9zSXsLTf0vkW971A Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFArRJ2XY6L6fI4GtQRAjjGAKDOjTHv2QePjpC7MN2yd1HwdfOzggCeOIlC bKdmUUgNcim7p1WreIZaALA= =4ZIK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --9zSXsLTf0vkW971A--
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