--- Kyle Moffett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . > > > The important point here is that directories don't > really exist. > > Except they do, and without directories the > performance of your > average filesystem is going to suck. >
Actually you would get a speed improvement. You hash the full name and get the file number. You don't have to break up the name into sections except for evaluating name permissions. The important concept here is that files and name aren't stored by levels of directories. The name points to the file number. Directory levels are emulated based on name separation characters or any other algorithm that you want to use. One could create a file system and permission system that gets rid of the concept of directories entirely if one chooses to. That's outside the box big time. Marc Perkel Junk Email Filter dot com http://www.junkemailfilter.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Shape Yahoo! in your own image. Join our Network Research Panel today! http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
