Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> wrote:
> And on rename() you will rebuild that data. How? Again, direct ancestors
> may be even not in dcache yet when you do the first lookup.
> What kind of data structure are you going to use?
The list of immediate parents would have to exist on disk for every
directory with more than one parent. I suppose I would base that data
structure on the "indirect block" structure of a regular inode.
Did I mention that I didn't think this was a pretty solution?
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