From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 10 19:20:16 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4220616A4CE; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:20:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.vicor-nb.com (bigwoop.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 093EA43D2F; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:20:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from [208.206.78.97] (julian.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.97]) by mail.vicor-nb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFF007A425; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:20:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <42309DEF.2030609@elischer.org> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:20:15 -0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050218 X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brooks Davis References: <200503100128.j2A1SP4h014420@agora.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> <200503101253.20876.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> <20050310175844.GA697@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050310175844.GA697@odin.ac.hmc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org cc: Mikhail Teterin cc: Erez Zadok cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What about inode file system? (Re: the current status ofnullfs, unionfs) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:20:16 -0000 Brooks Davis wrote: >On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:53:20PM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > >>A few years ago, there was a project making a filesystem, where a file's name >>will simply be its inode number. It was intended to save on the name-to-inode >>lookups of a regular filesystem, for applications like Squid, which keep file >>names in some sort of a database already. >> >>Does anyone know, what became of that? To the naive me it seems like this can >>just be a mount option for ufs. Thanks! >> >> > >The inode file system was removed to ease UFS2 development. It's in the >Attic under sys/ufs/ifs. > > When it was removed it was t said that it would be easier to reimplement it again after the filesystem stuff quietenned down.. No-one has done htat, bu tit would progably be feasible to get ti foing again soon, or at least after jeff's next changes go in,.. >-- Brooks > > >