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From: jack@cwi.nl (Jack Jansen)
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Subject: Re: What kind of things would you want in the GNU OS
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Date: 13 Jun 89 12:37:02 GMT
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In article <19981@adm.BRL.MIL> rbj@dsys.ncsl.nist.gov (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>
>I seem to remember something about a UNIX port to a big machine (Cray?
>370?) that used 4k bytes/inode. Guess where small files were stored?
>
Was this actually implemented? This idea was proposed by Sape Mullender
and Andy Tanenbaum in the paper 'Immedeate Files' (Software - practice
and experience, april 1984), but I wasn't aware that people had actually 
done it.

I would be interested if anyone could provide more details.....
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