From owner-freebsd-fs Thu Mar 19 17:35:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA21001 for freebsd-fs-outgoing; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 17:35:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (winter@sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA20934 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 17:34:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA18180; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 20:34:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 20:34:30 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Terry Lambert cc: Daniel Sobral , fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stackable filesystems? In-Reply-To: <199803192303.QAA15187@usr09.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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