I think you'll find both Linux and BSD are very object oriented when you
actually sit and think about them. Linux is a set of classes with virtual
methods.
> On the topic of File Systems, The BeOS (BFS) file system is highly underrated
> and has per file attribute association, Journaling.
Read only BFS is out
> The BeOS will even bypass the buffer cache for streaming media applications
> to prevent needlessly flushing buffer cache.
SGI, late 1980's 8). O_DIRECT.
> It would be cool to see these ideas in Linux.
Take a look on ftp.linux.org.uk:/pub/linux/sct
> > That I would argue is a property of good file system design not a fundamental
> > change in programming models of any kind.
>
> Except when you do a classic Unix linear search of a file system in a directory
> with buttloads of entries, then moving to a stronger algorthym like B-trees is
> important. That requires a shift away from the quick and dirty stuff that
> Unix is known for...
Thats still hardly a model change. If you look at btree based fs's like OS/2
hpfs they fit straight into a unix vfs. I don't think you will find any
recent design large disk size targetted unix fs using linear directories.
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