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From: stren@netcom.com (Sam Trenholme)
Subject: Re: Ideal filesystem
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>But in a new design... Something like associating a second list of
>blocks (containing extended metadata, or EAs, call it what you like)
>with an inode.

I've thought about this, and looking at the inode structure, I think it 
would be easier to just allow a directory entry to have a variable number 
of inodes.

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