In message <199610022145.OAA04796@phaeton.artisoft.com>  Terry Lambert wrote:
> > I'm hoping to avoid somebody saying "But I don't WANT it to rearrange my
> > data, and put it on different disks automatically!". Of course, you could
> > still cut off that feature. In that event, it could still give you hints.
> 
> Generate an event stream as a reasult of FS events, then, and export
> the stream interface.
> 
> This is generally useful for things like "Hi, I'm a browser, tell me
> when the directory changes so I can redisplay it instead of polling
> it every 10 seconds like a Macintosh does to an AppleTalk Server".
> 
> The events would be interpreted by a management facility with active
> components.  By default, the active components would not be provided
> (ie: you want that type of behaviour, you write it).
> 
> See the AFS documentation for more information on this type of event
> processing facility.

Or have a look at the purposed DMIG (Data Management Interface Group)
standard. (ftp://acsc.com/pub/dmig/if_doc/v2.3/).

If anybody starts to implement this, count me in.

Stefan

> 
> 
> 					Terry Lambert
> 					terry@lambert.org
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> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.

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