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

Scott Dellinger <scott.dellinger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

That last sentence is more or less the only difference to the current 
BeOS. And that's also why Haiku doesn't yet have any query support; 
because I intend to solve that differently as well :)

Bye,
   Axel.

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