Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 19:36:33 -0700 From: Conrad Minshall <conrad@apple.com> To: wsanchez@apple.com, hackers@freebsd.org Cc: warner.c@apple.com Subject: Re: Adding desktop support Message-ID: <l03130301b34d73afe506@[17.202.43.185]> In-Reply-To: <199904290159.SAA33648@scv3.apple.com> References: "Your message of Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:36:14 MDT." <199904281736.LAA15179@harmony.village.org>
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At 6:59 PM -0700 4/28/99, Wilfredo Sanchez wrote: > Hold on there... We ain't dropping the Mac OS thing. We're using the >NeXT bundle strategy in Mac OS X Server, because there we use UFS. Mac OS >X will have HFS+ which gives us named attributes on any file, and we'll >probably make heavy use of that, as before. Both work pretty well. I do >think the NeXT thing suits BSD a lot better, because it fits the Unix >model nicely, and you don't have HFS+ support (yet). Certainly you can't >count on everyone using HFS+. BTW "named attributes" (aka named forks, aka named streams, etc) are not only in HFS+. They are in UDF, in NTFS, and in the current NFS V4 draft. So on my wish-list is a VFS layer to transparently provide them over UFS. -- Conrad Minshall ... conrad@apple.com ... 408 974-2749 Apple Computer ... Mac OS X Core Operating Systems ... Filesystems & Kernel Alternative email address: rad@acm.org. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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