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Date:      Sun, 22 Mar 1998 19:32:18 -0800 (PST)
From:      Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
To:        Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, root@danberlin.resnet.rochester.edu, dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Subject:   Re: CURRENT Kernel Status
Message-ID:  <XFMail.980322193218.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
In-Reply-To: <19980322195557.03039@mcs.net>

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On 23-Mar-98 Karl Denninger wrote:
 
..

> Maybe it is now - I was using it back in the 3.0/3.1 days (~4 years ago+)
> and it wasn't rational to use it for the "gazillions of small files" case
> then.

Filesystems are engineering products.  As such, they represent a compromise
towards a design goal.  News (or e-mail) far exceed the design goals for
any reasonable Unix filesystem, in more than one way.

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Sincerely Yours, 

Simon Shapiro
Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG                      Voice:   503.799.2313

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