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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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Subject: Re: UFS2, GEOM & DARPA - don't get all excited, OK ?
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Julian Elischer wrote:
> One thing to look at:
> Inode in dirent allocation..
> 
> there was a Usenix paper on this ..
> It made a huge performance difference in some cases..

Microsoft has an approach simialt to this.

The call it "The FAT Filesystem".

8-) 8-).

-- Terry

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