Re: Thinking outside the box on file systems

From: Phillip Susi
Date: Wed Aug 15 2007 - 16:43:43 EST


Marc Perkel wrote:

Kyle - you are still missing the point. chmod goes
away. File permissions goes away. Directories as you
know them goes away.

You are missing the point Marc... open()ing a file will have to perform a number of these pattern matches to decide if it is allowed or not... this would be a HUGE overhead.

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