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Date:      19 Mar 2002 04:03:39 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Quincey Koziol <koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Filesystem books?
Message-ID:  <xzpelihfed0.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <200203182230.g2IMUwh22651@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu>
References:  <200203182230.g2IMUwh22651@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu>

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Quincey Koziol <koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu> writes:
> I'm working on a scientific file format (HDF5 -
> http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu) which has a lot of similarities to a
> filesystem.

This basically looks like strongly typed filesystem - you could build
this on top of any existing filesystem in FreeBSD using extended
attributes and a userland library.  Storing it in a single XML file is
IMHO a regression, especially from a performance standpoint.  Or did I
miss some crucial point?

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

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