On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 10:46 AM, Moritz Lenz <mor...@faui2k3.org> wrote:
> On 05/11/2016 04:30 PM, Bennett Todd wrote: > >> Thanks for the explanation. Sounds like an unfortunate situation, rather >> than letting the system admin choose modules within the limits of >> filesystem namespace, it's using a separate database, opaque to filesystem >> tools. I hope this is just a temporary hack until a mature solution is >> hammered out. >> > > We'd love it to be temporary, but until all target platforms (Linux, Mac > OS X, Windows) can offer fully Unicode-capable, case sensitive file > systems, we *have* make our own workarounds. > Filesystems make lousy databases. Yes, I know git uses the filesystem as a database... also that they tuned it for the best speed they could get on ext4, which means performance utterly sucks on windows/ntfs and isn't great on freebsd ufs or on hfs+. (And has needed all sorts of adjustments and bug fixes to be compatible with Windows' filename restrictions and case sensitive filesystems.) -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
