What about inode file system? (Re: the current status of nullfs, unionfs)

[Mikhail Teterin]

> On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:53:20PM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> > A few years ago, there was a project making a filesystem, where a file's
> > name will simply be its inode number. It was intended to save on the
> > name-to-inode lookups of a regular filesystem, for applications like
> > Squid, which keep file names in some sort of a database already.
> >
> > Does anyone know, what became of that? To the naive me it seems like this
> > can just be a mount option for ufs. Thanks!
>
> The inode file system was removed to ease UFS2 development.  It's in the
> Attic under sys/ufs/ifs.

If someone recovers it and makes it work on 5.x, I'll make a patch for Squid 
to take advantage of it.

	-mi