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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 17:26:08 +0200
From: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
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Subject: Re: First alpha symlink patch
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Martin Stromberg wrote:
> 
> Laurynas said:
> > Sounds good. So let the symlinks be 376 bytes in size (just not the
> > power of 2).
> 
> Why is power of two bad? Why 376 bytes?

Programmers like powers of two too much, including the size of 
files :) I want to make file size rarier - this improves perfomance.

> Wouldn't it be good to let symlinks be, say, 512 (or 511 if power of
> two isn't good), the smallest cluster size if I'm not mistaken, if we
> need some more space later.

This is acceptable - however I can't imagine right now, why the additional
space is required.

Laurynas Biveinis