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> Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 13:06:21 -0500
> From: JT Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
> 
> I was just thinking about storing LFN entries on disk as inode-ish
> structures instead of using empty directory entries....

Ah, that...

I guess they wanted to preserve the old DOS code which traversed
directories, even in the Windows filesystem code.  Recording the long
entries elsewhere would require an entirely different code for, e.g.,
the FindFirst system call.