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To: chambersb AT juno DOT com (Benjamin D Chambers)
Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 14:04:13 +0100
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Subject: Re: A few FS notions
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Once upon a time (on  2 May 97 at 0:01) Benjamin D Chambers said:

> this would require a new file scanning call in the OS, to >retrieve a
> reference to this other file (and/or a call to get an >attribute >value by
> name).
> 
> Hmm... Interesting, but why not just put it in the dir entry?  Wouldn't that
> make it just that much easier for everyone?
That wouldn't be flexible enough IMHO. Besides much of the information might, 
just might, not be used by an "average" user (ACLs, accounting etc.) and thus 
would waste space in a dirent. Besides the larger the dirent, the less files 
you can store on your disk. 
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So I talked about conscience and I talked about pain,
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