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Date:      Wed, 17 Jun 1998 11:19:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
To:        michaelh@cet.co.jp (Michael Hancock)
Cc:        Matthew.Alton@anheuser-busch.com, FreeBSD-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, Scott.Smallie@anheuser-busch.com, Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Filesystem Development Toolkit
Message-ID:  <199806171819.LAA06262@tao.thought.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.95.980617201526.4908B-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> from Michael Hancock at "Jun 17, 98 08:18:55 pm"

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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



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