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

[George Michaelson via TUHS]

Is the return of a stat() call from the directory block not file "metadata"?

G

On Tue, 16 Sept 2025, 2:21 pm Tom Perrine via TUHS, <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

> I think that was also true of Multics.
>
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> On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM Noel Chiappa via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org>
> wrote:
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> >     > 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
> >
>