On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 23:44 -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: > Hubert Chan wrote: > >And a question: is it feasible to store, for each inode, its parent(s), > >instead of just the hard link count? > > > > > Ooh, now that is an interesting old idea I haven't considered in 20 > years.... makes fsck more robust too.... Hey, sounds like the idea I proposed a couple months ago of storing the path names in each file, instead of in directories. Only better, since each path component isn't text but a link instead. It still has the performance and locking problem of having to update every child file when moving a directory tree to a new parent. On the other hand, maybe the benefit is worth the cost. -- Jonathan Briggs eSoft, Inc.