Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:57:42 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.2.11pre2 proposed patch |
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On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Raul Miller wrote:
> Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> wrote: > > 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. > > Consider a mount-time option supporting a file which maps each file > name to an inode number. You'd have to peg the entire file system > directory tree into memory on mount (and post big warnings about > the failure modes), but maybe it would be good. > > Not saying that you should implement it, just critique the > idea.
Feel free to implement it. IOW, it's going to be choke-full of races. I don't envy anybody who will try to do it. Modifications of said file upon rename()... <shudder> Besides, you'll have to do search in that file. Definitely not my idea of fun. There are simpler ways to implement a decent filesystem at *that* cost - after all, since you are going to keep a lot of metadata in-core you may as well try to write vfat<->ext2 convertor ;-)
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