Re: [PATCH] IFS: Inode FileSystem

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, 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.

In Arla, they use the file handle routines, which accomplish some of the 
same objectives -- insert for a new cache file is still expensive, but you 
can lookup using the file handle and avoid walking the name space.

Robert N M Watson