Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-25,: Re: Fw: Some very thought-provoking ideas about OS architecture.

# Re: Fw: Some very thought-provoking ideas about OS architecture.

Rik van Riel (riel@nl.linux.org)
Mon, 21 Jun 1999 06:39:58 +0200 (CEST)

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On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> > 1. All objects are one of two types (pages or nodes).
> > 2. All nodes are the same size; all pages are the same size
>
> "All inodes are the same size, all disk blocks are the same size"

And yet we manage permissions and access on the _file_ level...

Rik -- Open Source: you deserve to be in control of your data.
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