[openbeos] Re: Max number of files on BFS?

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 13:23:25 -0400, Scott Dellinger
<scott.dellinger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I don't know about attribute indexes, though.

I checked, and they're having a discussion right now over on the
reiserfs mailing list about this.  I don't believe reiserfs currently
has attribute indexes, and it seems that it doesn't currently support
live queries, but they're talking in general terms about how to do it.
 BeOS implements this at the filesystem level, such that queries can't
cross filesystem boundaries withou fudging it by repeating the search
on each filesystem.  They're pondering the idea of a virtual "QueryFS"
on which queries could be accessed as virtual directories whose
entries are the results of a search, and implementing the query code
in the kernel so the code doesn't have to be repeated in each
filesystem.


Scott

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