Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs Subject: Re: Incremental sync()s and using disk idle time Message-ID: Date: 10 Mar 91 17:34:56 GMT References: <28975@cs.yale.edu> Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation Lines: 13 In article , kinch@no31sun.csd.uwo.ca (Dave Kinchlea) writes: > Am I missing something important here, other than the fact that no operating > system I am aware of has a concept of an abstract filesystem (except at > the user level). AmigaDOS supports an abstract filesystem implemented as a task, and it works quite well. The DOS itself is just a library that figures out what filesystem handler to send requests to for each call. Evereything after the lead : in the filename is up to the FS in question. Putting the filesystem in a peripheral should be a piece of cake. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"