Re: [PATCH] IFS: Inode FileSystem

From: Bruce M Simpson <bms_at_spc.org> Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 13:14:33 +0100 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:38:35 UTC

On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 06:51:00AM -0400, Jim Rees wrote:
> OpenAFS could benefit from something like IFS, although I'm not volunteering
> to do the work.  The client has complicated code to keep its thousands of
> cache files in a hierarchy just to reduce name lookup time, and the server
> originally used a special "open by inode" system call that had been hacked
> in to the kernel.

And it looks like we as a project are eating our words now, which is no
bad thing:-
	http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2000/11/28/0030.html

:-)

Regards,
BMS