These APIs were clearly modeled after Ext2FS internals, and make perfect sense
in Ext2FS context. The new APIs are more generic, and map better to the
semantics exported to the userspace, where inode identifiers only appear in
stat() and readdir() output, but never in any input.
This will also hopefully reduce the potential for races (see commit c44b4d61f3).
Lastly, this makes it way more viable to implement a filesystem that only
synthesizes its inodes lazily when queried, and destroys them when they are no
longer in use. With inode identifiers being used to reference inodes, the only
choice for such a filesystem is to persist any inode it has given out the
identifier for, because it might be queried at any later time. With direct
references to inodes, the filesystem will know when the last reference is
dropped and the inode can be safely destroyed.
As suggested by Joshua, this commit adds the 2-clause BSD license as a
comment block to the top of every source file.
For the first pass, I've just added myself for simplicity. I encourage
everyone to add themselves as copyright holders of any file they've
added or modified in some significant way. If I've added myself in
error somewhere, feel free to replace it with the appropriate copyright
holder instead.
Going forward, all new source files should include a license header.
This was a workaround to be able to build on case-insensitive file
systems where it might get confused about <string.h> vs <String.h>.
Let's just not support building that way, so String.h can have an
objectively nicer name. :^)
Walk the custody cache and try to reuse an existing one when possible.
The VFS is responsible for updating them when something happens that would
cause the described relationship to change.
This is definitely not perfect but it does work for the basic scenarios like
renaming and removing directory entries.
Also run it across the whole tree to get everything using the One True Style.
We don't yet run this in an automated fashion as it's a little slow, but
there is a snippet to do so in makeall.sh.
