"Neulinger, Nathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Something as simple as having an alternative namei that would look the
> same down below, but would have the top level directory be the RW volume
> id corresponding to whatever data is being stored.
Um, the top-level directory (well, two top-level dirs) already is
(are) the volume id. It's just encoded in base64, and split into
two sets of bits. But it's still the volumeID. E.g.
./+/++++U/+/+/0++++6
./1/1+++U/special/zzzzPA++++0
These are in two different volumes.
> This would allow the top level dirs and volume header to be backed up
> and restored as regular files. Granted you would not have the true
> snapshot like you can get with vos, but even that is subject to timing
> as far as high level file access goes.
Current namei already gives you that, actually.
-derek
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