"C. Bergström" <codest...@osunix.org> wrote:
> Miles Nordin wrote:
> >>>>>> "pt" == Peter Tribble <peter.trib...@gmail.com> writes:
> >>>>>>
> >
> > pt> Does it make sense to fold this sort of intelligence into the
> > pt> filesystem, or is it really an application-level task?
> >
> > in general it seems all the time app writers want to access hundreds
> > of thousands of files by unique id rather than filename, and the POSIX
> > directory interface is not really up to the task.
> Dear zfs'ers
>
> It's possible to heavily influence the next POSIX/UNIX standard if
> you're interested to test or give feedback ping me off list. The Open
> Group does take feedback before they implement the next version of the
> standard and now is a good time to participate in that.
You seem to missunderstand how the POSIX standard committee works.
The POSIX standard usually does not give up previous definitions and it only
adopts to already existing and well tested implementations in case they fit
well into the existing standard.
Jörg
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