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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...  :)

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