On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Russ Cox <r...@swtch.com> wrote: >> "In general, the File interface is appropriate for maintaining >> arbitrary file trees (as in ramfs). The File interface is best avoided >> when the tree structure is easily generated as necessary; this is true >> when the tree is highly structured (as in cdfs and nntpfs) or is >> maintained elsewhere." >> >> Is this referring to avoiding the usage of createfile and friends in >> 9pfile.h for highly structured trees? > > Yes. You can look at the named examples to see > the alternative. My experience has been, well, what > it says in the man page: the File interface was an > interesting idea but is rarely useful. >
I understand, what confused me was that ramfs is not using File/createfile. So even though ramfs could have taken advantage of the createfile tools it didn't. why? The only fileserver that I found that was actually using createfile is rdbfs. regards fernan -- http://www.fernski.com
