Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 14:40:51 -0500 From: "Kevin P. Neal" <kpneal@pobox.com> To: Marca Registrada <inf@nyef.res.cmu.edu> Cc: hackers list FreeBSD <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Coda FS: FBSD port done!, but development favors Linux Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19980212194051.00a60ee0@mail.mindspring.com>
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At 12:39 PM 2/12/98 -0500, Marca Registrada wrote:
> From the latest I heard on the Coda lists, Linus is very against this
>becuase he feels it ruins the consistency of the FS interface. This of
>course can change at any moment. The current proposal is to make an
>filesystem where inodes can be accessed directly as files.. ie:
>
>fopen("/mnt/__inode_#12345#","r");
> or something similar looking to that. It actually doesn't sound like a
>monster to implement at all. And as a separate filesystem solves many of
>the fsck problems Coda currently has.
Sorry, I'm out of touch.
Why wouldn't Coda work in FreeBSD as a fs layer sitting above ffs (or whatever)?
Why must Coda have access to the raw inodes? And what fsck problems does
Coda currently have?
Has this even been discussed anywhere?
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