> I don't think I've ever heard of a filesystem that mingles more than > one file in a single block. (If they do, it's certainly news to me, > and no reasonable model can be made that will deal with it.) The "out
ResierFS does this (though you can turn it off). One of it's claims is that it happily supports 100,000's of small files in a directory, all b-tree indexed and stored in sub-block amounts. They say ResierFS 4 will be exposing a transaction API in userspace apparently to deal with all these issues of atomicity and files. I'm still not sure whether they think they're a filesystem or a database. (sound like anything else recently... longhorn) Rob
