[801] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: File browsers and AFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Fri May 22 01:25:15 1992
To: Dale MacDonald <macdonal@parc.xerox.com>
Cc: info-afs@transarc.com
In-Reply-To: [796] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Reply-To: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 22 May 92 00:11:25 EDT
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@athena.mit.edu>
>> Many file browser programs, notably Sun's filemgr, actually peek inside
>> every file to try to find enough information to know what application to
>> launch when the file is opened.
This sounds like a losing proposition for NFS and UFS, too, since it's
likely to hose your buffer cache. It seems to me that the right thing
to do is not to open the file until the user clicks on it (or
whatever). I think this would also make the GUI a lot more reponsive.
when reading large directories.
Marc
