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From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
To: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] IFS: Inode FileSystem
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On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 06:51:00AM -0400, Jim Rees wrote:
> OpenAFS could benefit from something like IFS, although I'm not volunteering
> to do the work.  The client has complicated code to keep its thousands of
> cache files in a hierarchy just to reduce name lookup time, and the server
> originally used a special "open by inode" system call that had been hacked
> in to the kernel.

And it looks like we as a project are eating our words now, which is no
bad thing:-
	http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2000/11/28/0030.html

:-)

Regards,
BMS