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From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
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Subject: Re: fd0* device for ADFS shape discs under i386 Linux
To: willy@odie.barnet.ac.uk (Matthew Wilcox)
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 21:58:05 +0100 (BST)
Cc: ajb85@cam.ac.uk, linux-arm@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199804172011.VAA31519@odie.barnet.ac.uk> from "Matthew Wilcox" at Apr 17, 98 09:11:02 pm
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> Someone should look at other filing systems to see how they cope with
> filesystems that don't provide nice inodes. When Dickon Hood & I were
> experimenting with NFS servers under RISC OS, we had a structure that
> worked well; it was a tree, and the inode we returned was the address
> within that list. You've got me intrigued now, I might just do it.
Several schemes are used. One of the cleanest if you stick to 2.1.8x+
is to issue inode numbers as you put things in the dcache and revoke
them as your inode is flushed. All open file inodes are in the dcache.
Alan