[GTALUG] Interesting essay on filesystem consistency

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 09:24:27PM -0500, Alvin Starr wrote:
> In the days of !path email a single file made a lot of sense.
> 
> It was just much easier.
> 
> That is defiantly not true today.
> 
> You have to remember a very famous man once said "who needs more than 640K"

Except no one seems able to find any evidence he ever said that.

> and someone once predicted that the world would only need 5 computers.

Given what a computer was when that was stated, it was probably true.
For that type of computer.  Once they became smaller, cheaper, faster,
the market got a lot bigger.

> All our good ideas today in 20 or so years will be though of as just plain
> stupid.

Well the ideas of unix seems to be holding up pretty well after 45
years. :)

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Len Sorensen