Are there any real users of this FS? If my memory serves, Adrian's plan was to add IFS support into the squid. I wonder if it had happened and whether or not it actually provides any real performance benefit. -Maxim On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 02:03:10PM -0400, Suleiman Souhlal wrote: > Hi, > > IFS is basically FFS, minus the namespace. Files are referenced by > their inode number, thus making file lookup very fast. This is very > useful for things that keep the file names in their own database > anyway, such as web or news caches. > > Files are created by opening the "newfile" file: > > fd = open("newfile", O_CREAT|O_RDWR, 0644); > fstat(fd, &st); > printf("new file is %d\n", (int)st.st_ino); > > Once a file has been created it is possible to accessing by just > opening it the file named after the inode number. For example: > > fd = open("5", O_RDWR); > > This filesystem was imported back in the year 2000, by Adrian Chadd > (adrian_at_) and removed in 2002, before the introduction of UFS2 in > order not to slow down the development of UFS2. > > I have fixed it so that it is usable on -CURRENT. You can find the > kernel bits at http://people.freebsd.org/~ssouhlal/testing/ > ifs-20050605-2.diff and the userland bits at http:// > people.freebsd.org/~ssouhlal/testing/ifs-20050605-userland-2.diff . > (You need to copy src/sbin/fsck_ffs to src/sbin/fsck_ifs and src/sbin/ > mount_ufs to src/sbin/mount_ifs, before applying the userland patch). > > You can use the regular newfs(8) to create such a filesystem. You > might also want to specify the -n option, so that the .snap directory > is not created at newfs, since directories are useless, in IFS. If > you don't you'll end up with a useless inode, which is not really a > big deal. > Once the filesystem is created, you can mount it with mount_ifs. > > You can find additional comments in src/sys/ufs/ifs/README in the patch. > > Is anyone interested in seeing this committed? > > Bye, > -- > Suleiman Souhlal | ssouhlal_at_vt.edu > The FreeBSD Project | ssouhlal_at_FreeBSD.org > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" > >Received on Mon Jun 06 2005 - 01:31:48 UTC
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