Re: Implementing Meta File information in Linux

Eivind Eklund (eivind@yes.no)
Tue, 25 Aug 1998 13:21:35 +0200


On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 08:21:33PM +1200, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> I really fail to see one single advantage of multiple forks over
> directories. Not one.

Space efficiency & clean naming; separation from directories made by
the user.

However, if you want forking of files, I believe the better design
would be to provide this as a stacking layer (in a Heidemann
framework), and use directories (.rsrc, anyone?) and files as your
backend.

Eivind.

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