From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 29 7:11: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DC7D37B479 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 07:11:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13pu63-0000AE-00; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 08:10:07 -0700 Message-ID: <39FC3DCF.533DD71@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 08:10:07 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: Ryan Thompson , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filesystem holes References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > Hi, > > how about using an indirect table of 64M 32-bit pointers into > the actual blocks being used ? For insertions you just > allocate a new fixed size block from the file. Isn't this roughly what dbm does with the hash key method? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message