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In article <40l9d9$8i1@news.ios.com>, nnb@haven.ios.com (Nikolai Bezroukov) writes:
|> doug blakey (dblakey@hookup.net) wrote:
|> : Here's my idea of an "Dream OS" I'd love some feedback as to how plausible
|> : it is.
|> ...
|> 
|> : 5. File sysem
|> :    -Hierarchy (of course)
|> :    -Multi-gigabyte support
|> :    -Encryption
|> :    -long file name support
|> :    -Suggestions Please (I don't know much abour file systems)
|> 
|> I would add:
|> 
|>   - File aliases. They are very important and should be implemented directly 
|>     (UNIX-like are OK)

Hard or soft links?

Hard -- multiple references in the naming tree to
        the same object (you can't change the
        object, but you can move the reference)
Soft -- changeable reference in the naming tree to
        another object

|>   - Decent set of file attributes for multi-level storage is a must 
|>     (last_acess, no_of_access, etc with user defines EA (with OS2-like))
|>   - ZIP-files should be consided as psoudo-directories (with 
|>     limitations) with native support for basic op (view, copy, move,
|>      rename delete).  

This would be very difficult without reading and uncompressing
the entire ZIP file into memory before operating on it.

One could also request this for TAR files, ARJ files,
ZOO files, CPIO files, HEXBIN files, AR files, and basically
any sort of archiver that currently exists out there.

I could see this sort of thing being done by a daemon that
hooks up to the kernel much like rpc.nfsd does, which would
make this far more general.  Hopefully such a daemon
could be hooked up to a dynamically extensible RAM disk
(something like the Amiga's, only with virtual memory
capability).

Of course, if we're going to go to all that trouble,
perhaps we should just unzip it onto the disk
in the first place. :-)

|>   - mountable external subsystems (FAT and HPFS)
|> 
|> 
|> : I would really appreciate any suggestions or criticisms.
|> 
|> - Nikolai Bezroukov, Softapnorama Ltd. Kiev, Ukraine

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