[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2012-08-23 00:45:33 +0000, Howard S Shubs said:

> In article <zCQYr.12412$7h.10088 at fx23.am4>, ChrisQ <meru at devnull.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Perhaps you could answer the question: Why RMS and on disk structure
>> was built into the filesystem at the time, to understand why it may
>> not be so relevant now.
> 
> Directory trees are still relevant.

I'm finding directories less relevant.  They're just a resource 
address, and a GUID could or would work as well.

I might as well just ask the OS "where's my local file store?" and just 
start using that address.

Though with the existing device and directory encoding, storage 
allocation details are implicitly encoded.

> File structure *can* be relevant.

The metadata and the organization within the file is centrally relevant 
to the application(s) involved with that file, or to whatever part of 
the OS is providing marshalling and unmarshalling for the data.  
Outside of the application and its peers/partners, you're right; not so 
much.

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