Date: 03 May 2000 14:45:30 +0200 From: Bjoern Groenvall <bg@sics.se> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A proposal : IFS Message-ID: <wuitwv245x.fsf@bg.sics.se> In-Reply-To: Adrian Chadd's message of Wed, 3 May 2000 18:54:58 %2B0800 References: <20000503040431.B53701@ewok.creative.net.au> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005031717190.71327-100000@lion.butya.kz> <20000503185457.C53701@ewok.creative.net.au>
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Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.ORG> writes: > An application which keeps an internal database of objects->filenames > would simply continue to do so, but the filename is simply the inode number. > WHen creating a file, it opens 'newfile' for create/write, which creates > a new file. It then stat()s the fd to get the inode number, and records > that. In squid case, it eliminates the need for keeping a bitmap of > used file entries, since the FS does this anyway. What about using fhopen and getfh instead? That way you won't have to write a new filesystem. You will have to use file handles rather than inode numbers though. Cheers, Björn -- _ _ ,_______________. Bjorn Gronvall (Björn Grönvall) /_______________/| Swedish Institute of Computer Science | || PO Box 1263, S-164 29 Kista, Sweden | Schroedingers || Email: bg@sics.se, Phone +46 -8 633 15 25 | Cat |/ Cellular +46 -70 768 06 35, Fax +46 -8 751 72 30 `---------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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