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From: "J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>
To: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@oracle.com>
Cc: David Dillow <dillowda@ornl.gov>,
	Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>, Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>,
	Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] d_ino considered harmful
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:57:52 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7385.1276829872@jrobl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A8B216D0-06C5-4D85-9AA6-EB4C9E87D26B@oracle.com>


Andreas Dilger:
> As the name implies, it is very extN specific. For Lustre 2.0 we use a  
> different method to get O(1) FID (inode number) to pathname(s)  
> lookup.  Each file stores an xattr with the {parent FID, filename}  
> tuples for each link to the file, whenever an inode is created,  
> linked, unlinked, or renamed.

Honestly speaking, this approach is the one which came to my mind when I
read David's mail. Andreas's approach and explanation is perfect as I
should admire.

Thank you
J. R. Okajima

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-18  2:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-16 18:59 [PATCH] d_ino considered harmful Valerie Aurora
2010-06-16 19:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-16 19:58   ` Valerie Aurora
2010-06-16 19:15 ` Jeff Layton
2010-06-16 19:58   ` Valerie Aurora
2010-06-16 19:54 ` [PATCH v2] " Valerie Aurora
2010-06-16 20:44   ` David Dillow
2010-06-17 18:04     ` J. R. Okajima
2010-06-17 18:17       ` David Dillow
2010-06-17 18:58       ` Valerie Aurora
2010-06-18  1:41       ` Andreas Dilger
2010-06-18  2:57         ` J. R. Okajima [this message]
2010-06-17 17:54   ` Jamie Lokier
2010-06-17 19:10     ` Valerie Aurora
2010-06-17 23:39   ` Andreas Dilger
2010-06-18 19:41     ` Valerie Aurora

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