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Hi,
Hans Reiser writes:
> Nikita has code not in our main branch that allows looking up files by their keys,
>we did it for
> squid when writing a namefree file store for it, let's give him a chance to comment
>on Monday.
if you are still interested in it, that is what was done for the
lookup-by-key stuff:
(*) there is ioctl to get key of open file descriptor
(*) there is special ram-only fs (like /proc) to open files on given
reiserfs mount by the keys.
>
> Hans
>
> Chris Mason wrote:
> >
> > On Saturday, December 02, 2000 15:33:58 -0500 Derek Atkins
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > I don't know anything about reiserfs, but I can explain what AFS is
> > > doing. Basically, the afsd user-space process does an opendir() on
> > > the cache directory. Then it iterates through the files looking for
> > > the cache files (they are all numbered, and the cachefile number is
> > > stored in the filename). For each cache file, it stores the inode
> > > number (obtained from dirp->d_ino from readdir()) associated that that
> > > cache file number (obtained from dirp->d_name).
So, call ioctl in stat's stead and remember key.
> > >
[...]
> >
> > -chris
Nikita.
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