On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 04:14:40PM -0400, Jesse Guardiani wrote: > Brooks Davis wrote: > > [...] > > > Ideally you'd like a file system that was fast, portable, and > > maintainable. I'm not sure all three are really feasiable unless you're > > really careful about defining portable so the OSes in question have a > > decent set of common VM semantics available with reasionable overhead. > > That's not to say we can't dream or that research shouldn't be done in > > this are, but I think we're definatly in research land here. > > Sure. I'm just surprised that this idea hasn't been researched more to date. > The current proliferation of portable storage devices is bound to generate > critical mass for this sort of technology soon (if it hasn't already). > > I'm surprised that device manufacturers haven't sponsored this kind of > research yet. Since for most of them, all the word is a windows box except for a few annoying nuts running MacOS or Linux, FAT seems to be good enough for them. :-( -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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