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

[Julian Elischer]

Brooks Davis wrote:

>On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:53:20PM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
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>>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.
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>>Does anyone know, what became of that? To the naive me it seems like this can 
>>just be a mount option for ufs. Thanks!
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>The inode file system was removed to ease UFS2 development.  It's in the
>Attic under sys/ufs/ifs.
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When it was removed it was t said that it would be easier to reimplement 
it again
after the filesystem stuff quietenned down..  No-one has done htat, bu 
tit would progably be
feasible to get ti foing again soon, or at least after jeff's next 
changes go in,..


>-- Brooks
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