[OpenAFS] OpenAFS on Linux 2.5.x

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Thu, 17 Jul 2003 13:35:12 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Derek Atkins wrote:

> And now you're talking about a lot of extra storage for, basically, just
> AFS...  You now need at least (on x86) 4 bytes for the fs key, and 4 bytes
> for the PAG, plus another 4 bytes for the 'next pag' -- assuming you build
> a linked list instead of a hash table.  Or you can trade off yet more memory
> to create an array, but how do you key into the array?
>
> As I said, I don't recall a "simple" solution ever being presented.

Jan Harkes sent a simple patch, but I don't recall the storage
requirements. But, it very definitely met "simple"