Re: reiser4 plugins

Hubert Chan
2005-07-06T21:01:55Z

On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 14:33:18 -0600, Jonathan Briggs <jbriggs@esoft.com> said:

> On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 15:51 -0400, Hubert Chan wrote:
>> On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 12:52:23 -0600, Jonathan Briggs
>> <jbriggs@esoft.com> said:
> [snip]
>>> It still has the performance and locking problem of having to
>>> update every child file when moving a directory tree to a new
>>> parent. On the other hand, maybe the benefit is worth the cost.

>> Every node should store the inode number(s) for its parent(s). Not
>> the path name. So you don't need to do any updates, since when you
>> move a tree, inode numbers don't change.

> You do need the updates if you change what inode is the parent.

> /a/b/c, /a/b/d, /a/b/e, /b
> mv /a/b /b
> Now you have to change the stored grand-parent inodes for /a/b/c,
> /a/b/d and /a/b/e so that they reference /b/b instead of /a/b.

Don't store (great)*grand-parent pointers; only parent pointers. c
points to b, b points to a, a points to root. c doesn't need to know
about /a or root directly.

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