On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 11:06:33AM -0800, Phil Nelson wrote:
> f) Does venus need to read this directory container file or does it keep
> the vice directory structure in RVM?

No venus only writes out the directory container files.

> Should venus convert to Linux version dirent also? From my reading
> code in NetBSD libc, it looks like the only common format is from
> the readdir libc code and that does a final conversion from the
> local OS dirent to the final format. Why should we force yet
> another conversion from BSD -> local OS format?

Linux might have had some kernel-version dependent changes in the directory format. Haven't checked, but that would be a good reason to keep the containerfile format in one standardized format (at least for linux).

Jan Received on 2000-02-02 15:01:22