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From: gph@hpsemc.HP.COM (Paul Houtz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Unix deficiencies/problems
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Date: 2 May 89 21:34:11 GMT
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gph@hpsemc.HP.COM (Paul Houtz) / 10:37 am  Apr 18, 1989 /

I wrote:

>   I am interested in peoples opinions of deficiencies or problems with 
>unix.   Please send me e-mail or post here.  I would be happy to post
>a summary.

  Oh,  I really should incude an example so one can get the idea of whata
I mean:

  One thing I would categorize as a deficiency is the UNIX file system's
inability to span disc drives.   In otherwords, your file system is limited
to the size of a disc drive.    If you want more files in that file system,
you must re-create it on a larger disc drive, or, if you already have the
largest available, you must start putting files in multiple file systems.

  To correct this:  Allow the disc address to be part of the address of
the file, this way, you would only need one file system per Unix system,
and that file system would have as many drives as it needs.   It would 
simplify matters greatly.


Paul Houtz
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