[openbeos] Re: kernel mime_table module

Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2005-01-09 at 18:03:00 [+0100], Axel Dörfler wrote:
> > "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > True bu it isn't bound by having an on-disk layout.
> > > BFS stores the nodes leaf name in itself, as well as the inode of 
> > > the
> > > parent folder. that wouldn't work for hardlinks.
> > Nothing keeps BFS from storing other parent directories as well; 
> > ie.
> > that would just be one more internal use of attributes (like the
> > filename).
> If it's that easy, then forget about indexing entries instead of 
> nodes. :-)

Yes, changing the B+tree implementation to be able to store entries 
would be much more complicated :-)

Bye,
   Axel.

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