From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 6 22:53:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA12509 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 22:53:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parkplace.cet.co.jp (parkplace.cet.co.jp [202.32.64.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA12486 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 22:53:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (michaelh@localhost) by parkplace.cet.co.jp (8.7.5/CET-v2.1) with SMTP id OAA09210; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 14:53:25 +0900 (JST) Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 14:53:25 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock To: Terry Lambert cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Breaking ffs - speed enhancement? In-Reply-To: <199606061802.LAA01468@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Terry, have you ever thought about going into teaching? Someone who > > is so adept at coming up with so many weird theoretical solutions on > > the fly should definitely be working in a University environment > > somewhere... ;-) > > That wasn't wierd -- that was a logical extension of the soft updates > work, just bringing it up a level of scope. I didn't really think > of it on the fly -- it took me a long time to come up with it. It's > just that the opportunity to talk about it presented itself. 8-). > > You want wierd: I want a logical numeric name space for files so that > the number is hooked to function and invariant under renaming. > This would let me rename /etc/passwd to a Spanish or Japanese name > (for instance) and still let /bin/login and everything that references > the file by number chain continue to function normally. Then I > want name catalogs for every language. > > Now *that's* wierd. 8-) 8-). That isn't wierd. That would be an excellent feature. -mike hancock