On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 11:59 -0400, Mingming Cao wrote: > On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 12:40 -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 01:30 +0800, coly li wrote: > > > Hi, once we decide to do this, how about storing inode inside the > > > directory ? > > > > Which directory? > I think Coly is refering to the idea of > store-inode-inside-in-directory-file. > > It's one way to implement the dynamic inode table allocation. With it > you don't have system-wide inode tables anymore, but all inode > structures are directly stored in the directory file. Assuming you mean the parent directory? An inode isn't tied to a specific parent. ln dir1/file1 dir2/ mv dir1/file1 dir3/ rmdir dir1 What is happens to the inode? I really don't think that the directory is the right place to store an inode. -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
