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On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 01:47:34PM -0400, Ali Bahar wrote:
> What I do not know, is whether there is a single system-wide name cache,
> or a per-directory cache linked list (LL). Neither the beastie book
> (Mckusick et al) or FreeBSD Developers' Handbook seem to cover
> this. Knowing the answer, would help me determine what the LLs are
> supposed to look like -- thereby help diagnose when the LL begins
> to go wrong.

The name cache is global, as far as I remember.

	David.