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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 07:42:53 +0200
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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In message <32655CDB.59E2B600@whistle.com>, Julian Elischer writes:

>personally I don't think persistance is of any importance
>but I hear the crowd yelling for their placebo's so I will do it some
>time.. but it tripples the complexity of the filesystem.

That's not true.  Layer it on top of a normal filesystem, use the
(empty) files down there to store the modes & ownerships.

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