> Oh! so much talk about the above subjects. Why not just kill every bird
> with one stone and create VSlowFS which has support for:
>
> . filesystem layering (Unix->simple)
> . per file metafile resources (think perl's __DATA__)
> . undeletion (actually, lets fall back to VMS and do a built in RCS type
> versioning with each file; undeletion would happen
> automatically)
Undeletion is easily done with userspace library and LD_PRELOAD.
> . per file/directory compression (why the hell not?)
This has been done, and it does not seem to slow down ext2 (should
appear in 2.3.?)
> . acl's (yeah, just part of metafile info, actually)
...as Ted said, this in someone experimental tree.
Pavel
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