Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 10:13:38 +0000 From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Arch question for a UDF FS driver Message-ID: <20010302101338.B412@hand.dotat.at> In-Reply-To: <200103020335.UAA18058@usr05.primenet.com> References: <200103011420.JAA00305@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <200103020335.UAA18058@usr05.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> wrote: > >INRE: the use of the inode to generate entity id's: I'm not too >familiar with how they are used architecturally (only that they >exist); is there support for handling has collisions (e.g. the >id is treated as a hash instead of a uniqueid), or otherwise >changing the calculation used? This would seem to me to be a >big limitation in papches, allowing a single server to only >support MAX(ino_t) entities. The resource identified by a URL can be one of many entities, depending on the Accept-Language and Accept-Charset headers, etc. The Etag is used (by caches etc.) to distinguish between them. I think a limit of 2^64 entities isn't going to be a big problem. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch fanf@covalent.net dot@dotat.at THAMES DOVER: NORTH OR NORTHWEST 3 OR 4 VEERING NORTHEAST 5, OCCASIONALLY 6. OCCASIONAL SLEET. MODERATE OR GOOD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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