From owner-freebsd-fs Wed Jun 17 11:20:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA07036 for freebsd-fs-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 11:20:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA07016; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 11:20:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (tao.tera.com [207.108.223.55]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA20318; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 11:20:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.8.8/8.7.3) id LAA06262; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 11:19:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline Message-Id: <199806171819.LAA06262@tao.thought.org> Subject: Re: Filesystem Development Toolkit In-Reply-To: from Michael Hancock at "Jun 17, 98 08:18:55 pm" To: michaelh@cet.co.jp (Michael Hancock) Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 11:19:58 -0700 (PDT) Cc: Matthew.Alton@anheuser-busch.com, FreeBSD-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, Scott.Smallie@anheuser-busch.com, Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: <> thought.org: public access uNix in service... <> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org According to Michael Hancock: > On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Michael Hancock wrote: > > > Poul Henning-Kamp, Julian Elisher, David Greenman, Bruce Evans, Peter > > Wemm, Doug Rabson, Tor Egge, Luoqi Chen, and Simon Shapiro. > > > > I mention Simon Shapiro because he has been working on a DLM and many of > > the concepts are similar but generalized to not just locks, but also data > > pages and file attributes. It's interesting to note that John Heidemann's > > experimental versions did not include locks and was not distributed. It > > just used the existing vnode locking implementation and interfaced with > > other distributed protocols such as NFS, etc. > > > > Of course, if some lurker out there were to take on this challenge that > > would be pretty cool too. > > Oh, and how could I forget, Terry Lambert would also have a lot of ideas > in this area as well or he might just yak and be a general pain in the > ass. ;-) which is about all I have time to do these days. > > If Terry's FS-based Unicode support would fit into this, it'd be interesting. So far I'm working on localizations via the locale catalogs. This may be a short-term solution and a broader, global solution may be a FS with wchar_t support. Any thoughts; or am I too far off-course? gary -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message