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- From: garyt@lgc.com (Gary Thompson)
- Subject: Re: lfs 0.6 --> "xfs"
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:56:17 GMT
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- Rick Miller <rick@ee.uwm.edu> writes:
-
- >qx@shire.math.columbia.edu (Qi Xia) writes:
- >[...]
- >>BTW: due to the name conflict to "log file system", the name of lfs
- >>is going to be changed. Johnson (johnsonm@stolaf.edu) suggests xiafs
- >>(pronounced as sheaves) and I come out xfs. suggestion wanted.
-
- >I *like* that idea. "xfs" has a nice 'sound' to it.
-
- It does, but there is already an "xfs". There's a paper in the latest
- issue of the X Resource which describes it. Here is the abstract...
-
- An experimental pseudo-NFS server has been implemented within
- the MIT R5 sample X server that exports server resources into
- the Unix file system namespace. X resources such as pixmaps,
- GCs, and colormaps appear as file directories in the exported
- file system and they contain files such as "width", "height"
- and "fill_style" that can be opened and read to obtain the
- values of corresponding attributes in the X resources types.
- As a special case, the window heirarchy appears as a directory
- tree under screen-specific top-level directories. Other
- resource types are contained under type-level type-specific
- directories with names like "fonts" and "cursors".
-
- The resource usage of window server clients can easily be
- viewed and explored by listing client-specific directories
- which contain symbolic links to all resources created by a
- particular client. Exporting X resources as a filesystem
- allows developers to easily browse them using familiar Unix
- tools such as ls, find, and du as well as GUI-based file
- managers.
-
- Sounds like a "/proc" filesystem for X. I haven't seen it, but it
- sounds cool and since it's already called "xfs", maybe another
- name should be chosen (I kindof like "yafs" :-)
-
- Gary
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