From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jenn sirp Subject: Re: repost for readdir Date: 24 Jun 2004 12:30:31 -0700 Message-ID: <1088105431.2573.40.camel@murdock.llnl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com > Please consider working with V4, it will be easier and more useful I think. I plan to. I read the documentation on-line about the plug-in capability of your FS -- very cool. And I have the rest of the summer to poke around with this idea. My questions are related to the implementation from a performance perspective... If readdir is the only function to be altered... it seems there would be a bit of a performance hit because a linear search, or binary at least would need to be performed every time. I am also not certain as to how to determine 'when' the file was created I assume it would need to be determined from the inode creation time? I am just looking for some general pointers as to implementation of this would best be achieved. I thought that maintaining another structure somewhere else in the code, that preserved filenames as they were written into the FS, would speed up readdir. Hopefully some of that makes sense ; ) Jenn