30 Jul
2009
30 Jul
'09
2:33 p.m.
2009/7/30 Timo Kreuzer <timo.kreuzer(a)web.de>de>:
What about long file names? Can't we use something
like that to work around
the patent?
Speaking of the LongFile Name patent and Journaling, there was if I
recall, a Linux kernel hacker a while back that addressed both with an
interesting patch. If I recall correctly, rather than storing a LFN
and a SFN it would only store one or the other and then use the other
record as some sort of a checksum on the file in question to achieve a
similar effect as a journal record. Maybe its more analogous to UFS
soft updates but I think you might get the idea. I'm not all that up
on filesystem semantics but I think a bit of googling might turn up
what I am talking about.
--
Steven Edwards
"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo