From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 28 18:35:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gizmo.internode.com.au (gizmo.internode.com.au [192.83.231.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B17861548B for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:35:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from newton@gizmo.internode.com.au) Received: (from newton@localhost) by gizmo.internode.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA08038; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 11:02:06 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from newton) From: Mark Newton Message-Id: <199904290132.LAA08038@gizmo.internode.com.au> Subject: Re: Adding desktop support (please don't) To: wghicks@bellsouth.net (W Gerald Hicks) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 11:02:06 +0930 (CST) Cc: bright@rush.net, imp@harmony.village.org, jb@cimlogic.com.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net.adelaide.on.net In-Reply-To: <199904281823.OAA93307@bellsouth.net> from "W Gerald Hicks" at Apr 28, 99 02:23:46 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG W Gerald Hicks wrote: [ "resource forks" ] > The concept isn't necessarily limited to GUI applications and has been > successfully used by OS/2, Macs and Windows among others. I'm not aware > of anything similar for any Unix but ELF seems to open the door for > interesting possibilities there too. SGI's XFS supports the idea of multiple streams per file. There's a btree of streams referenced by each XFS inode, and an API you can use to manipulate the various streams. By default, they provide a standard data stream, an ACL stream and a guaranteed-rate I/O stream (so you can say things like, "I want to access this data at 5 Mbytes/sec. Kick other I/O requests out of the way to give me what I need as a matter of priority...") - mark ---- Mark Newton Email: newton@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email: newton@atdot.dotat.org (H) Internode Systems Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82232999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message