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From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
Subject: Re: Almost Free Symbolic Links (source code)
Message-ID: <id.J2UV.H5K@ferranti.com>
Keywords: symlink data in inode block list
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
References: <39777@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:19:28 GMT
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In article <39777@hoptoad.uucp> curt@hoptoad.uucp (Curt Mayer) writes:
> this cruddy but complete hack answers one of the objections to symlinks:
> that they are slow, and cost an entire frag. symlinks of less than length
> 60 are stored in the inode itself.
How about generalizing this to put ALL files < 60 bytes in the inode, not
just symlinks?
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