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From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: using reiserfs as a DB
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 10:46:41 +0400
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To: Phil Howard <phil-reiserfs@ipal.net>
Cc: Yura Umanets <umanets@priocom.com>, reiserfs-list@namesys.com

Hello!

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 06:16:45PM -0500, Phil Howard wrote:
> | The first component is identifier of directory where given object (file 
> | or directory) lies. Second - identifier of the given object. Third 
> | component - offset inside object. If object is file, then offset is 
> | offset inside this file, if directory - hashed name of first entry in 
> | this direntry. And finally last component is type of the item (statdata, 
> | direntry, direct item, indirect item).
> How is the application going to know what the key is for a particular
> file?  How is the application going to translate what it has as a key,

It seems I used wrong word. What was used to acces files were in fact
md5 sums of their names (the URL in squid case).

> into the kind of key the raw interface uses?  How costly is this lookup?

Once Nikita will appear, he can explain better because he invented the code,
I believe.

Bye,
    Oleg