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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Rosenstein)
Fri May 24 15:50:01 1991
Date: Fri, 24 May 91 15:44:33 -0400
From: Mark Rosenstein <mar@MIT.EDU>
To: mailman!sugerman@uu.psi.com
Cc: moira@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Mark Sugerman's message of Fri, 24 May 91 11:44:24 PDT <9105241844.AA03360@tds.com>
The FSGROUP table is used to implement filesystem groups. A
filesystem group (or fsgroup for short) is a sorted list of
filesystems. The name of an fsgroup must be unique among all fsgroups
and filesystems. Because of this, we implemented the representation
of fsgroups as a filesystem of type FSGROUP, and then use the FSGROUP
table to keep track of all of the members of the group and their sort
keys. The sort keys determine what order they have in the group
(alphabetic by sort key). The client program deals with the sort keys
so that users don't need to concern themselves with them, only with
what order they want the filesystems in.
-Mark
