Re: Do not make a compatible squid file system

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 09:26:21 +0100

wang_daqing wrote:

> But I also do not agree this. For you create a new system not like
> other filesystem. Why you want to operate them same way? I suggest
> abstract in object store layer not in filesystem layer.

The API is not moddeled like the UFS API, is is modelled around Squids
needs for object storage. Then there is a storage implemenation mapping
this to UFS calls.

> I don't know what are you thinking or feel about inode. I think a bit
> FAT is enough(one disk block one bit) for fsck.

That is a block bitmap, not a FAT. A FAT also contains file specific
information like block sequences.

/Henrik
Received on Thu Feb 03 2000 - 01:33:36 MST

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