[openbeos] Re: Re : FS attributes
- From: "Michael Phipps" <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 00:00:48 -0500
>"Can We Get By Using Just Files and
>Directories (Composing Streams And Attributes From Files And
>Directories)?"
>http://www.namesys.com/v4/v4.html#compose_streams
>
>Couldn't we use ReiserFS in place of BFS ? Doesn't it provide all the
>functionality needed?
I want to start out by saying that I am sure that ReiserFS is a very decent FS.
But, No. This is BeOS. Not Linux or BSD or some other OS. OBOS, at least for
R1, needs bfs. We can *certainly* have other FS's. Be did - Fat16, ISO9660, etc.
But OBOS needs BFS. One very simple reason is to read all of those bfs
partitions out
there. Another is that Tracker requires the exact attribute handling and so on
that
bfs has. It would be *more* of a headache to deal with re-working all of that
then it
would be to get bfs working. Especially since there are bfs drivers out there.
>I also recommend reading this to the OBOS developers: Future Vision by Hans
>Reiser
>http://www.namesys.com/whitepaper.html
>
>quote : "Utility of an operating system is more proportional to the number of
>connections possible between its components than it is to the number
>of those components."
This, I think, in and of itself, explains a great deal about why the BeAPI
works so
well.
>alex.
>
>PS: i'm not promoting reiserFS, i just found interesting ideas in it :)
I am sure that there are. As there are interesting ideas in Linux, X, C# and
more.
But, truth be told, we had to make a decision and we did so. :-)
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