Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:29:53 +0530 | From | Bharata B Rao <> | Subject | Re: [rfc git patch] union directory |
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On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 10:05:09AM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 05:33:19PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, Bharata B Rao wrote: > > > > The plan is to get a simple kernel implementation first which caches > > the directory in 'struct file'. > > FYI, I did this for a version of Union Mount. > (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/20/21) I was maintaining the readdir cache in > struct file and the cache was persistant across readdir calls. > > Do you have anything different in mind ?
The version pointed to by me above had the entire cache stored in the struct file of the topmost directory. I guess your plan is to cache them per branch and combine them during readdir()/getdents() ?
Regards, Bharata.
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