From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To: Jonathan Briggs <jbriggs@esoft.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>,
"Alexander G. M. Smith" <agmsmith@rogers.com>,
leocomerford@gmail.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com,
ninja@slaphack.com
Subject: Re: File as a directory - VFS Changes
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 09:59:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <429C97F9.8000009@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1117558515.13252.21.camel@localhost>
What happens when you unlink the True Name?
Hans
Jonathan Briggs wrote:
>
>You can avoid cycles by redefining the problem.
>
>Every file or "data object" has one single True Name which is their
>inode or OID. Each data object then has one or more "names" as
>properties. Names are either single strings with slash separators for
>directories, or each directory element is a unique object in an object
>list. Directories then become queries that return the set of objects
>holding that directory name. The query results are of course cached and
>updated whenever a name property changes.
>
>Now there are no cycles, although a naive Unix "find" program could get
>stuck in a loop.
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-31 16:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-28 0:46 File as a directory - Ordered Relations Alexander G. M. Smith
2005-05-28 4:56 ` David Masover
2005-05-28 19:42 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-05-29 17:58 ` File as a directory - VFS Changes Alexander G. M. Smith
2005-05-30 8:25 ` Hans Reiser
2005-05-30 11:00 ` Nikita Danilov
2005-05-31 0:20 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2005-05-31 9:34 ` Nikita Danilov
2005-05-31 15:04 ` Hans Reiser
2005-05-31 16:00 ` Nikita Danilov
2005-05-31 16:30 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-05-31 16:55 ` Jonathan Briggs
2005-05-31 16:59 ` Hans Reiser [this message]
2005-05-31 17:13 ` Jonathan Briggs
2005-05-31 18:27 ` Hans Reiser
2005-05-31 21:01 ` Jonathan Briggs
2005-05-31 21:08 ` Jonathan Briggs
2005-05-31 22:36 ` Nikita Danilov
2005-05-31 23:01 ` Jonathan Briggs
2005-06-01 10:39 ` Nikita Danilov
2005-06-01 10:43 ` Nikita Danilov
2005-06-01 14:06 ` Jonathan Briggs
2005-06-01 14:42 ` Nikita Danilov
2005-06-01 15:40 ` Jonathan Briggs
2005-06-01 17:27 ` Nikita Danilov
2005-06-01 19:03 ` Jonathan Briggs
2005-06-02 10:38 ` Nikita Danilov
2005-06-02 18:35 ` Jonathan Briggs
2005-06-02 23:54 ` Nikita Danilov
2005-06-03 17:57 ` Hans Reiser
2005-06-04 19:45 ` Nikita Danilov
2005-06-04 20:13 ` David Masover
2005-06-07 5:08 ` Hans Reiser
2005-06-03 6:44 ` Faraz Ahmed
2005-05-31 18:23 ` Nikita Danilov
2005-05-31 18:32 ` Hans Reiser
2005-06-02 1:27 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2005-06-02 7:46 ` Hans Reiser
2005-06-02 9:11 ` Nikita Danilov
2005-06-02 17:23 ` Hubert Chan
2005-06-01 2:11 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2005-06-01 10:58 ` Nikita Danilov
2005-06-02 1:58 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2005-06-02 10:03 ` Nikita Danilov
2005-06-03 3:35 ` Performance Impacts of Graph Cycles due to Multiple Parents Alexander G. M. Smith
2005-06-03 11:15 ` Nikita Danilov
2005-06-07 2:04 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2005-05-30 8:19 ` File as a directory - Ordered Relations Hans Reiser
2005-05-31 16:46 ` Jonathan Briggs
2005-05-31 17:07 ` Hans Reiser
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2005-06-02 14:46 File as a directory - VFS Changes Faraz Ahmed
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