24 Jun
2020
24 Jun
'20
5:14 a.m.
Rob Pike <robpike(a)gmail.com> wrote:
For my taste, the various Unix file system switches
that I've seen are too
firmly tied to the idea of blocks and disks and all that, making them less
flexible than they should have been. That's why the Plan 9 version is about
names and byte streams, to make it as general as possible.
That's one of the reasons the possibilities of the file system approach to
data has not reached its potential in Unix.
-rob
Well, it's a progression, isn't it? As ideas are tried out, they are
used and then refined, and used and refined further. Multics did that
for its predecessors, Unix did that for Multics, and Plan 9 did that
for Unix. The key difference in Unix and Plan 9 from others being
the continual goal towards refinement through simplification.
Arnold