In <2290167024549142.wa.zatlas1yahoo....@listserv.ua.edu>, on
11/28/2013
at 08:08 PM, "Ze'ev Atlas" <zatl...@yahoo.com> said:
>What I envision is a central system catalog that any file name
>created (reasonably or virtually no limitations on file names,
>level of hierarchies or any other such limitations [obviously
>more, much more than 44 characters and 5 levels]) would be
>transparently cataloged into (by the kernel itself.) Obviously,
>that catalog entry would have to record (hard coded information
>such as volser, mounting point or whatever have you) where is
>that file resides in an absolute manner.
Mount point is dynamic, not static. Its more analogous to volser than
to device address.
>Once such a thing is implemented, all you need to do is mention the
>file name or alias, regardless of where in the system or file system
>you are.
When I ask for 'SYS1.LINKLIB', which of my 20 SYS1.LINKLIB data sets
do I get?
>For people who are not techno-geeks this is much simpler than
>anything available today.
In what way is it simpler than the catalog and directory structures
that currently exist? The ordinary user does not need to worry about
creating user catalogs or about mounting file systems on empty
directories. It's all transparrent to him.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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