Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:20:15 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What about inode file system? (Re: the current status ofnullfs, unionfs) Message-ID: <42309DEF.2030609@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20050310175844.GA697@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <200503100128.j2A1SP4h014420@agora.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> <200503101253.20876.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> <20050310175844.GA697@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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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 > > >
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