Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 20:34:30 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Daniel Sobral <Daniel_Sobral@voga.com.br>, fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stackable filesystems? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980319203256.10695A-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <199803192303.QAA15187@usr09.primenet.com>
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On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Terry Lambert wrote: > VMS version control is problematic. It requires that patter expansion > be done in the kernel, not in the shell. THere's a lot of other good > reasons to do this, like not pushing non-matching file names over the > user/kernel boundry unnecessarily. > > The problem with doing this is shell globbing. Shells expand patterns > before they would be givent to the FS. Which would mean that the FS would look no different to a shell that wasn't coded to take advantage of it. > This would be a significant deviation from the way It Has Always Been. I'm assuming that the versioned file system and the DCL clone would go hand in hand... :) /* Matthew N. Dodd | A memory retaining a love you had for life winter@jurai.net | As cruel as it seems nothing ever seems to http://www.jurai.net/~winter | go right - FLA M 3.1:53 */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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