Re: File system namespace resolution proposal

["Clive D.W. Feather" <yyyyy@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jason Zions said:
>>>Fine, so those are properties of the filing system. The right place to put
>>>them is in the inode - of course, you'd need extra functionality *or* extra
>>>fields somewhere like "struct stat".
>>If there was an istat() that can stat a specific inode and there is a 
>>st_ishadow (shadow inode) field in the main stat data you could hold such
>>data inside a shadow inode.
> 
> That assumes your filesystem is based on inodes. There are existing
> POSIX-conforming implementations whose filesystems are not based on inodes.

True. However, you could provide extra functionality - even based on struct
stat - that worked no matter how it was implemented.

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