From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Mar 18 19: 3:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9E5137B405 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 19:03:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 6F5EA5346; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 04:03:40 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Quincey Koziol Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filesystem books? References: <200203182230.g2IMUwh22651@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 19 Mar 2002 04:03:39 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200203182230.g2IMUwh22651@sleipnir.ncsa.uiuc.edu> Message-ID: Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Quincey Koziol 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 -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message