Re: Linux 2.2.11pre2 proposed patch

Raul Miller (moth@magenta.com)
Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:49:04 -0400


Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> wrote:
> yes, FAT is in sore need of pointed stick, mallet and garlic; no, even its
> authors can't kill the bloody thing and they would *like* to do that.

Consider a mount-time option supporting a file which maps each file
name to an inode number. You'd have to peg the entire file system
directory tree into memory on mount (and post big warnings about
the failure modes), but maybe it would be good.

Not saying that you should implement it, just critique the
idea.

Thanks,

-- 
Raul

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