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From: toreh@bootes.sds.no (Tore Haraldsen)
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Subject: Re: Almost Free Symbolic Links (source code)
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Thank you, Curt Mayer, for this nice, little hack!! It reduces my shadow
X11R5 tree from 12MB of symlinks to a mere 800kB, quite a difference!

I recognize the technique as the one applied to the Ultrix file system a
couple of years ago, it made a similar impact there...

Again, thank you for a very nice hack!

-- tore
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Tore Haraldsen, Statens Datasentral A/S - SDS, Norway
email: toreh@bootes.sds.no