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Message-ID: <462D4D6E.50809@zytor.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:21:02 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
CC: Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Eric Hopper <hopper@...ifarious.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question about Reiser4
Neil Brown wrote:
>
> Our you could think outside the circle:
> Store all your "small files" as symlinks, then use "symlink" to create
> them and "readlink" to read them. (You would probably end up use
> symlinkat and readlinkat).
> Only one system call instead of three.
> I guess you don't get meaningful permission bits then... I wonder if
> that really matters.
>
For some applications, oh yes it does.
-hpa
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