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List:       squid-dev
Subject:    Re: squid-head and ifs: random work
From:       Adrian Chadd <adrian () creative ! net ! au>
Date:       2001-01-23 13:16:36
Message-ID: 20010123211636.F73240 () ewok ! creative ! net ! au
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On Tue, Jan 23, 2001, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> Adrian Chadd wrote:
> 
> > A while back I created IFS - the Inode Filesystem - for FreeBSD.
> > Basically its FFS without the directory namespace. You work with
> > inode numbers as your directory.
> 
> There exists a similar thing for Linux EXT2
> 
> http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9901.1/1059.html

You'll find that the ifs code actually *removes* most of the directory
operations from FFS/UFS to give a flat inode namespace. This lets you
create/unlink inodes and have fsck work properly without "tricks" :)


Adrian


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Adrian Chadd			"Sex Change: a simple job of outside 
<adrian@creative.net.au>	  to inside plumbing."
				    - Some random movie

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