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Quote: an NFS file handle is a 32-byte reference to a file or directory
Topic:
file directory
Topic:
hierarchical structures
Quotation Skeleton
To operate as an NFS server [refs], the repository must assign a 32-byte NFS file handle to … or directory by its handle. … Another problem … is how to implement the parent links in … The repository solves both these problems with a … externally visible directory tree that was used to … The index numbers are packed into the longid … [p. 102] Longids are not reused, because directory entries … files in volatile directories are usually given a … pathname. … [p. 103] shortid-based longids … [make] copy-on-write … impossible. … Second, shortid-based longids sacrifice the ability to find … [making them] … unsuitable for directories. Google-1 Google-2
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Additional Titles
Quote: a Vesta longid is a 32-byte encoding of a directory path by index number; gives parent directory; never reused Quote: the NFS file handle for Vesta files in volatile directories is a shortid plus fingerprint
Topic: file directory (55 items)
Topic: hierarchical structures (46 items)