Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:51:14 -0500 From: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What about inode file system? (Re: the current status of nullfs, unionfs) Message-ID: <200503101351.14424.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: <20050310175844.GA697@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <200503100128.j2A1SP4h014420@agora.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> <200503101253.20876.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> <20050310175844.GA697@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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> On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:53:20PM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > A few years ago, there was a project making a filesystem, where a file's > > name will simply be its inode number. It was intended to save on the > > name-to-inode lookups of a regular filesystem, for applications like > > Squid, which keep file names in some sort of a database already. > > > > Does anyone know, what became of that? To the naive me it seems like this > > can just be a mount option for ufs. Thanks! > > The inode file system was removed to ease UFS2 development. It's in the > Attic under sys/ufs/ifs. If someone recovers it and makes it work on 5.x, I'll make a patch for Squid to take advantage of it. -mi
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