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Re: A memory-based filesystem for the lazy [or impatient]
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Roland McGrath |
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Re: A memory-based filesystem for the lazy [or impatient] |
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Sat, 23 Dec 2000 14:20:07 -0500 (EST) |
> So what about a new weird store type, "run", with a command string as an
> argument:
>
> settrans -a /tmp /hurd/ext2fs -T run 'mke2fs ${store}:copy:zero:100M'
>
> The run store would create a temporary translated node like storeio provides
> it, let's say at /dev/fd/X (I don't know if we can use the /dev/fd namespace
> for that), and substitute ${store} and run the command. When it completes,
> the temporary node is destroyed and the now initialized copy store is passed
> through. Is this creeping featurism?
It's certainly that. I am pretty dubious about this idea.
- A memory-based filesystem for the lazy [or impatient], Farid Hajji, 2000/12/19
- Re: A memory-based filesystem for the lazy [or impatient], Jim Franklin, 2000/12/20
- Re: A memory-based filesystem for the lazy [or impatient], Roland McGrath, 2000/12/21
- Re: A memory-based filesystem for the lazy [or impatient], Marcus Brinkmann, 2000/12/21
- Re: A memory-based filesystem for the lazy [or impatient], Roland McGrath, 2000/12/21
- Re: A memory-based filesystem for the lazy [or impatient], Marcus Brinkmann, 2000/12/23
- Re: A memory-based filesystem for the lazy [or impatient],
Roland McGrath <=
- Re: A memory-based filesystem for the lazy [or impatient], Roland McGrath, 2000/12/23
- Re: A memory-based filesystem for the lazy [or impatient], Marcus Brinkmann, 2000/12/25
- Re: A memory-based filesystem for the lazy [or impatient], Roland McGrath, 2000/12/26
- Re: A memory-based filesystem for the lazy [or impatient], Joshua Rosen, 2000/12/23
- Re: A memory-based filesystem for the lazy [or impatient], Marcus Brinkmann, 2000/12/23