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Unix Programming - Problems in the Design of Unix - File Systems Might Be Considered Harmful

File Systems Might Be Considered Harmful

Was having a file system at all the wrong thing? Since the late 1970s there has been an intriguing history of research into persistent object stores and operating systems that don't have a shared global file system at all, but rather treat disk storage as a huge swap area and do everything through virtualized object pointers.

Modern efforts in this line (such as EROS [160]) hint that such designs can offer large benefits including both provable conformance to a security policy and higher performance. It must be noted, however, that if this is a failure of Unix, it is equally a failure of all of its competitors; no major production operating system has yet followed EROS's lead.[161]


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