Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right

Hans Reiser
2003-11-05T14:07:21Z

Ingo Oeser wrote:

>On Tuesday 04 November 2003 09:13, Hans Reiser wrote:
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>>Timothy Miller wrote:
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>>>Nikita Danilov wrote:
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>>>>It is called "a directory". :) There is no crime in putting
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>>>>cc src/*.c
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>>>>into Makefile. I think that Hans' query-result-object denoting multiple
>>>>objects is more like directory than single regular file.
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>>>So a file system query that results in multiple files generates a
>>>"virtual directory"?
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>>Remember that this code does not exist yet.....;-)
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>>Sounds like it might be a good way to do it though.
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>Yes and this also solves the "refine feedback" problem: Just return
>sth. useful in the stat->nlink for that directory
>or even create a new stat-like syscall.
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I don't understand what you are saying about nlink. Can you say more?

>Now the issuer can decide on ANY level, whether to refine the search or
>accept the result to present it in a listing.
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>A proper replacement for nlink is looong overdue.
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>But even with the crappy one, we have now, it can be decided since a
>list of 65K is too much for a proper selection and cannot be handled by
>a user. Somebody even said that every search pattern revealing more
>than 50 records is not refined enough.
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If the user is looking for only one record....

>PS: Hans, we just saved you the funding on this topic.
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>Regards
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>Ingo Oeser
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Hans