From: jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 00:20:35 -0500 (EST)
To: "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
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Subject: Re: [opendos] BAD Filesystems
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Why not add a crc on the file name; creation date,
and creation time?  Perhaps a combined crc to act as a tie
breaker but those must be and remain unique.
That as a random access key into a lookup table
containing the remaining elements of the directory structure
including the lfn if one exists.
I'll suggest storing the file name last in that table to allow
for maximum variability possibility in terms of length.



jude <jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com>