Several people have asked about how to mass move a tree under my idea for a new kind of file system. I have an idea. Suppose you have the file name as follies.
/one/two/three/four/file1 Except the are a million files in /four/ named file1 to file1000000. We want to move thes files to /seven/six/five. How do you do that fast? Here's an idea. Suppose you have a hash not only of files but of the directory sections. Every new section is added and givem a number. For simplicity the table might look like this: one 1 two 2 three 3 four 4 five 5 six 6 seven 7 So what the path is reduced to is /1/2/3/4 which point to those names. So if you want to move it then you change the names in the database. seven 1 six 2 five 3 And then everything that's stored as /1/2/3/4 is still the same but the sections resolve to different names. I'm sure there are errors in my logic but I'm trying to show that if you are persistent in trying to come up with ideas on how to do something you will eventually make it work. But if you are looking for ways to make it not work then you probably won't solve it. So the correct response to this message isn't to prove that my method won't work, but to come up with a method that will work. You have to look for a solution rather than attack other people's solutions. That's what thinking outside the box means. Impossible = Challenge Marc Perkel Junk Email Filter dot com http://www.junkemailfilter.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative vehicles. Visit the Yahoo! Auto Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/ - 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/