[TUHS] Quick Question: Early Filesystems and Name/Metadata Separation?

Tom Perrine via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org
Tue Sep 16 14:21:08 AEST 2025


I think that was also true of Multics.


On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM Noel Chiappa via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

>     > From: Warren Toomey
>
>     > Was Unix the first to separate a file's name from the other file
> metadata
>
> UNIX was the first filesystem I know of where file metadata was not kept in
> the directory. So, yes.
>
>         Noel
>


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