Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 14:45:11 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: kpneal@pobox.com (Kevin P. Neal) Cc: Chris_G_Demetriou@ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu, gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org, thorpej@nas.nasa.gov, phk@critter.tfs.com, greywolf@siva.captech.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org, tech-kern@netbsd.org Subject: Re: VPS mailing list, BSD interest? Message-ID: <199610022145.OAA04796@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19961002054454.008cfba4@mindspring.com> from "Kevin P. Neal" at Oct 2, 96 01:44:54 am
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> I'm hoping to avoid somebody saying "But I don't WANT it to rearrange my > data, and put it on different disks automatically!". Of course, you could > still cut off that feature. In that event, it could still give you hints. Generate an event stream as a reasult of FS events, then, and export the stream interface. This is generally useful for things like "Hi, I'm a browser, tell me when the directory changes so I can redisplay it instead of polling it every 10 seconds like a Macintosh does to an AppleTalk Server". The events would be interpreted by a management facility with active components. By default, the active components would not be provided (ie: you want that type of behaviour, you write it). See the AFS documentation for more information on this type of event processing facility. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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