user filesystems 1801

following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...:

If I remember correctly - I'm not exactly too Windows-experienced myself but I did quite a lot of reading ;-) - then compression built into the filesystem itself only started appearing in NTFS version 4.x, and thus it was in Windows NT 4.0 and above that this was available.

To my recollection there was no such thing as filesystem-built-in compression in Windows 95. What did exist for Windows 95 back at the time was a technology similar to the Stacker program for DOS and OS-2.

I can't say that I have any experience with that.

No experience with that either.

Many of the GUI's for UNIX systems do have atrashcanand default to moving things to this trashcan rather than to delete them right away.

Either way, the best technique for not losing anything is making backups. Lots of them. ;-)

Filesystems such asxfs,-reiserfs,-reiser4andjfswork like a database. In addition, fast searches regarding the filesystem can be done via theslocatepackage, which comes standard in just about every distribution I know of.

It does a nightly or weekly indexing of the entire filesystem - excluding virtual filesystems like *-proc* and *-sys* - via the excutable *-usr-bin-updatedb* from acronjob - and then the results can be used via the commands...

locate textstringhere

... and...

slocate textstringhere

There are many mechanisms that can do that. Mandrake-Mandriva for instance includesmsec,a series of scripts that are run from acrontaband perform checks on altered files, altered permissions and the likes. It can even be so vigilant as to reset permissions that you yourself have changed.

I believe you have missed a lot of what has changed in the last 20 years... ;-)

In my humble opinion, I think you are overstating the "problem", and underestimating the tremendous difference between a multi-user and mainframe-qualified operating system such as GNU-Linux and a single-user operating system that thinks its bigger than its shoes. ;-)

UNIX systems have never been user-centric, other than in their performance- and security-centricity. That's the UNIX legacy, and upholding that has proved to be in the best interest.

GNU-Linux doesn't want or need to become Windows. It may not be as user-centric as you would like, but perhaps the user needs to become a little more computer-centric instead... ;-)

Intellectual laziness breeds dumber people. If Darwin were still alive today, he'd agree with me on that. ;-)

-- With kind regards,

*Aragorn* (Registered GNU-Linux user #223157)