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

[Brooks Davis]

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.

-- Brooks

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