Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 13:17:08 -0500 From: sbabkin@dcn.att.com To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, owensc@enc.edu Subject: RE: Coda FS: FBSD port done!, but development favors Linux Message-ID: <C50B6FBA632FD111AF0F0000C0AD71EE413292@dcn71.dcn.att.com>
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> ---------- > > * Current work is being done to develop Linux kernel extensions > that > will allow access to files via raw inodes. This development is > seen as key to allowing Coda to support large filespaces with > reasonable performance. See this URL for Peter's notes on > these extensions: > > http://telemann.coda.cs.cmu.edu/maillists/linux-coda/0225.html > Probably I don't understand something or understand something wrong but it does not seem a really big issue for me. As far as I understood from this article, Coda uses some traditional filesystem as its lower level ? And it needs this inode access to speed up the operation ? Then why not just create a special filesystem that will not contain any data except Coda's and that will use inode numbers instead of file names ? Or, as a yet simpler approach, write a user-level library that will make its own filesystem structure in a plain file (and then it will be possible to use a disk special file as this plain file) ? -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe hackers" in the body of the message
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