Chris Dukes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 7 Jan 2002 16:34:28 +0000:
> A wise person once said "those who do not know Unix are doomed
> to reinvent it, poorly."  In the case of structured files, it
> would appear that those that do not know OS/400 are doomed to
> reinvent it, poorly.

Good point.  I usually find that talking about something I think
is new flushes out a comment from someone that it's already been
done.  But at least now I know enough to pause and hunt up info
on OS/400 and Mungi.  Thanks.

> I still question putting resource fork capabilities into a single
> existing filesystem at this time. [...]

Yup.  As we discovered in another series of messages here, it
could easily be built on top of a simple file system (though
preferably with change notification).  That's probably the way to go.

- Alex

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