Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Jul 1999 18:29:42 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.2.11pre2 proposed patch |
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On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Frank [iso-8859-1] Matthieъ wrote:
> As i know, the (v)fat is organize in clusters. This clusters can be identified > by numbers. It's just an idea, but i think it's possible to 'map' this number > to inode number, because, they are 16/32bit long. At this way there is no > problem with changing inode number between reboots. > > Is it a bad idea ?
Yes. Please, look through archives - this horse was beaten to death back in January. In short: empty files have no clusters; no, we can't allocate a hidden cluster when we create a file since we may get a filesystem from DOS and DOS doesn't do that; no, allocation upon open/stat/etc. is not going to fly since -ENOSPC from stat() will confuse the heck of everything; yes, all schemes along the lines "let's do something for Linux-only setups" are braindead since there is no reasons to use FAT in such setups; yes, FAT is in sore need of pointed stick, mallet and garlic; no, even its authors can't kill the bloody thing and they would *like* to do that.
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