[openbeos] Re: BFS and encryption.

> Hi,
>> I was wondering, are you going to make a complete clone of the BFS or
>> will there be room for changes in it?
>
>For R1 we will make an functional exact port of the BFS.
>Changes will earliest be in R2.
>
>> In this case im thinking, if it would be possible to have some form of
>> encryption added to the fs?
>> Ofcourse it would be a huge task, but im thinking it would be easier to
>> do now when your planing instead of later on.
>
>This is an interesting feature, but I don't see it as part of the R1
>release, sorry.
>
>We have our hands full with recreating the original BFS as it is.
>
>But you are welcome to work at if you want to. It will take a while before
>it can be included of course.
>
>       /JM

As an interesting note:

One thing to consider is that you can pile a FS on top of a FS, that is, call 
one FS from
another. It is very possible to make FooFS that is really bfs, but encrypting 
reads and writes.
There are a couple of interesting things one can do here:

1) Encrypted FS. In fact, you could encrypt ANY fs with an encryptfs that can 
connect to any other FS.
2) Source Control FS - make every source control file a directory with version 
info stored in different files
3) Versioned FS - like VMS has.
4) Compressed FS - compressing every read before it goes to disk.

These are not R1 (or maybe even OBOS) projects. But they are some interesting 
ideas.

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