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From: rbj@dsys.ncsl.nist.gov (Root Boy Jim)
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Subject: What kind of things would you want in the GNU OS
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Date: 12 Jun 89 22:58:57 GMT
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? From: Barry Shein <bzs@bu-cs.bu.edu>

? Re: Symbolic Links...

? Also note that some vendors (eg. Encore) will store a symlink pathname
? directly into the inode if it will fit (I think the cut-off was 63
? chars which isn't too sleazy, I never measured the hit rate tho I
? could easily I guess.) This means that getting the symlink path
? requires no extra disk accesses tho chasing down the result of course
? costs the same.

? The moral is: before you condemn a feature just for being
? non-performant make sure the implementation can't be improved.

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?

? 	-Barry Shein

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