Re: tosfs, faster hash function...

[Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.north.de>]

Julian Reschke writes:

> I think the current implementation is useless. If you really want to keep
> it, there should be a portable method to *inquire* whether the inodes
> are 'real' or just a counter.

 hmm.  stat one file twice?
> 
> Juergen, re start cluster as inode: for empty files, one could use
> (start cluster of directory << 16) | (index of file within directory)
> (note that cluster numbers are always 16 bit, while the inode has 32 bits).

 why only for empty files?

 cheers
	Juergen
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