Re: fatfs virtual inodes

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 11:17:38PM +0200, M. Gerards wrote:
> The biggest problem of the old code is that the old structures are not 
> removed.
> And this code works more optimal than the old one (I assume). I'm still
> increasing the number, but that doesn't harm us because unused numbers are not
> in the table anymore, that could happen with the old version. A huge gap could
> be created by removing all files except the last for example.

Right.  Well, the old code was just written the way it was because I wanted
to try out if virtual inodes work out ok, and didn't want to worry abour
optimization.
 
> Do you want me to improve this patch as you suggested or do you think this is
> useless?

By all means, please!  It's the way to go.

Thanks,
Marcus

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