[PATCH] IFS: Inode FileSystem
Robert Watson
rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jun 6 23:35:26 GMT 2005
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
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