Re: more ramblings about inodeless fs

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > This is not a serious problem.  If you choose this implementation, all
> > you have to do is purge the cache of the changing id.  

> I am considering this, however, I am a bit concerned about performance
> impact (as the name cache would become effectively unused except if you
> lookup a file to which a reference is help and which is still in the cache).

Huh?  You would only purge the cache when a rename happens.  That's
not so bad, I think.  I'm not suggesting purging the cache everytime
you release an inode, just every time it's number changes.