Re: squid-head and ifs: random work

On Tue, Jan 23, 2001, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> Adrian Chadd wrote:
>
> > A while back I created IFS - the Inode Filesystem - for FreeBSD.
> > Basically its FFS without the directory namespace. You work with
> > inode numbers as your directory.
>
> There exists a similar thing for Linux EXT2
>
> http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9901.1/1059.html

You'll find that the ifs code actually *removes* most of the directory
operations from FFS/UFS to give a flat inode namespace. This lets you
create/unlink inodes and have fsck work properly without "tricks" :)

Adrian

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