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From: hosking@convexs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.notes
Subject: Re: notes questions
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Date: Thu, 9-Jan-86 04:34:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  9 04:34:00 1986
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Nf-From: convexs.UUCP!hosking    Jan  9 03:34:00 1986


Although it might be nice to have the cross reference capability, it would
also probably hurt performance a lot to have gazillions of different files.
Think of how much time 4.2 BSD systems spend doing namei types of things all
ready, how many more times you'd have to go to disk, how much extra disk
space would be taken up, how many extra inodes you'd burn, how much longer
system backups would take, etc.  Seems like a pretty hefty price to pay when
there shouldn't be very many things cross posted at all.  I have to wonder
if it's worth it.

		Doug Hosking
		Convex Computer Corp.
		Richardson, TX
		{allegra, ihnp4, uiucdcs, sun!texsun}!convex!hosking