From: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, jblunck@suse.de,
dlezcano@fr.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [rfc git patch] union directory
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:29:53 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081201075953.GE3388@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081201043509.GA3388@in.ibm.com>
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 10:05:09AM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 05:33:19PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> >
> > The plan is to get a simple kernel implementation first which caches
> > the directory in 'struct file'.
>
> FYI, I did this for a version of Union Mount.
> (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/20/21) I was maintaining the readdir cache in
> struct file and the cache was persistant across readdir calls.
>
> Do you have anything different in mind ?
The version pointed to by me above had the entire cache stored
in the struct file of the topmost directory. I guess your plan
is to cache them per branch and combine them during
readdir()/getdents() ?
Regards,
Bharata.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-01 8:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-28 11:01 Miklos Szeredi
2008-11-28 16:19 ` Bharata B Rao
2008-11-29 16:33 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-12-01 3:57 ` hooanon05
2008-12-01 4:35 ` Bharata B Rao
2008-12-01 7:59 ` Bharata B Rao [this message]
2008-12-01 19:31 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-12-01 16:24 ` David P. Quigley
2008-12-01 16:54 ` Erez Zadok
2008-12-17 5:21 ` Ian Kent
2008-12-18 16:45 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-12-19 1:47 ` Ian Kent
2008-12-22 13:52 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-12-22 14:22 ` Ian Kent
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