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Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 18:07:08 -0800
From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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To: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
CC: Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
       Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
Subject: Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right
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Ingo Oeser wrote:

>On Tuesday 04 November 2003 09:13, Hans Reiser wrote:
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>>Timothy Miller wrote:
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>>>Nikita Danilov wrote:
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>>>
>>>>It is called "a directory". :) There is no crime in putting
>>>>
>>>>cc src/*.c
>>>>
>>>>into Makefile. I think that Hans' query-result-object denoting multiple
>>>>objects is more like directory than single regular file.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>So a file system query that results in multiple files generates a
>>>"virtual directory"?
>>>      
>>>
>>Remember that this code does not exist yet.....;-)
>>
>>Sounds like it might be a good way to do it though.
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>>
>
>Yes and this also solves the "refine feedback" problem: Just return
>sth. useful in the stat->nlink for that directory
>or even create a new stat-like syscall.
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>
I don't understand what you are saying about nlink.  Can you say more?

>Now the issuer can decide on ANY level, whether to refine the search or
>accept the result to present it in a listing.
>
>A proper replacement for nlink is looong overdue.
>
>But even with the crappy one, we have now, it can be decided since a
>list of 65K is too much for a proper selection and cannot be handled by
>a user. Somebody even said that every search pattern revealing more
>than 50 records is not refined enough.
>  
>
If the user is looking for only one record....

>PS: Hans, we just saved you the funding on this topic.
>
>Regards
>
>Ingo Oeser
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Hans


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