Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 1st Jul 2009 20:19 UTC
"Earlier this year, people in many places wrote about the 40th anniversary of the moment Ken Thompson sat down and started to work on UNIX (which is actually in August). In fact, UNIX celebrates another birthday this year, even though on a slightly smaller scale. In July 1974, exactly 35 years ago, Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson published the first version of their seminal paper The UNIX Time-Sharing System in the Communications of the ACM."
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2006-03-13
Yes, it's still sufficient. You see, anonymous byte streams are flexible things. Just because the operating system doesn't IMPOSE a set structure on files doesn't mean that they can't have one internally. Take, for example, your video example. Several container formats exist which provide the structure needed to implement multiple audio and subtitle tracks in a video. All you would need to do would be to agree on certain common container formats. Changing the filesystem itself is overkill.
Edited 2009-07-02 18:59 UTC