Re: Some questions about Reiser4

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Fred -- Speed Up -- wrote:

>So, what you call "inodes" within Reiser4 are stat data (last access time,
>right, ...) and a way to find the files's data (not directly the physical
>adress, but a piece of information determining exactly the file), mainly for
>VFS compatibility purposes. Are 'inodes' converted to keys when Reiser4 gets
>them from VFS, or do they represent a physical adress on the disk ?
>
We don't call them inodes, we call them stat data, and stat data are 
stored in the tree where they can be found by their key like everything 
else.

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>Now I'm going to reformulate the question I asked you about big file storage
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>Big files need more than one extent. But according to the documentation,
>there seems to be only one pointer associated to each file. So how can you
>point out multiple extents necessary to store big files, using extent
>pointers in the tree ?
>
>Be sure I'm awaiting the great Hans and his core dev team ;-)
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>Fred
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Hans