Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 11:02:04 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: michaelv@HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com) Cc: terry@lambert.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Breaking ffs - speed enhancement? Message-ID: <199606061802.LAA01468@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199606060424.VAA02721@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> from "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" at Jun 5, 96 09:24:12 pm
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> >I'm personally now less interested in LFS than I am in soft updates, > >and more in the direction of a general graph theory soloution to FS's > >as a set of event nodes, and consistency guarantees as a set of event > >handling ording rules with soft updates implemented as an inter-node > >conflict resoloution schema. > > 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-). 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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