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From: George Michaelson <ggm@dstc.edu.au>
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Subject: namei() costs for symlink farms and big dirs
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Can I pick some FreeBSD experts brains off-list please?

anybody who can comment on the cost(s) of running large
flat directories of symlinks (eg using GNU stow for /usr/local/bin)
especially over NFS?

cheers
	-George


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