RE: WORM file system for logging

["Resino, Robert G." <RGResino () mclo40 med navy mil>]

There is a discussion in the Plan 9 docmentation that talks about the
"WORM Farm".  In my understanding, it is an "Extendable Volume" type of
Hyerarchical File Stucture.

You might want to look at:

Sean Quinlan, ``A Cached WORM File System'', Software - Practice and
Experience, December, 1991 
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/who/seanq/cw.ps

Bob Resino


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> From:         Marcus J. Ranum[SMTP:mjr () nfr net]
> Sent:         Monday, August 03, 1998 11:16 AM
> To:   Andreas Siegert; firewall-wizards () nfr net
> Subject:      Re: WORM file system for logging
>
> > We can't write our own file system, due to lack of resources and
> time.
>
> The guys at Bell Labs (Andrew Hume, in particular) presented
> a paper on "The File Motel" at USENIX a number of years ago.
> Getting code out of Bell Labs is, unfortunately, tough, but
> you might see what happened with it. The code may have been
> for Plan 9, in which case it wouldn't work very well in UNIX
> unless it was ported - basically a rewrite for filesystems.
>
> mjr.
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