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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!ficc!peter
- 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
- Lines: 12
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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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