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

Axel Dörfler wrote on Tue, 31 Aug 2004 21:12:50 +0200 CEST:
> Our aim is to take the query code in BFS and divide it into several 
> separate parts. [...]

Definitely good!  Just have one layer support indexing, and the queries can be 
built on top of that in a separate module / library.

> BTW using the BDirectory(node_ref *) constructor and a hard coded 
> node_ref that points to an index, you can already do that with your 
> standard BeOS. You will then also notice that the original BFS has a 
> bug that might lead to circular indices - they're only hiding the 
> symptoms, they've never fixed that directly.

Having the index as an entry in the index?  Can make things weird.  Now that 
you mention it, did I check for that in AGMSRAMFileSystem? :-)

- Alex

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