On Sep 20, 2005, at 11:56 PM, David Laight wrote:
You are (probably) too young...... The RSX-11M filesystem [1] had every disk block allocated to a file, including the metadata. Searching for free space, someone found these large files hidden in the system directory and deleted them. They then had to revert to the disk archive!
It doesn't take an old-timer to be familiar with metadata-in-files file systems... HFS+ also puts metadata into files.
-- thorpej