Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Open by inode? (was Re: knfsd) | From | Florian Weimer <> | Date | 05 Jan 1999 14:20:45 +0100 |
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Meelis Roos <mroos@tartu.cyber.ee> writes:
> >> Is there any reason why the superuser shouldn't be able to open by > >> inode? This seems an obvious idea; perhaps there's also an obvious > >> argument against it that I'm not seeing... > > JL> Is this really necessary? > > It might speed up news servers - maybe even a lot.
It has already been done for INN 1.4 and kernel 1.2.x (AFAIK) and it resulted in a performance improvement. But to be honest, this is pretty much irrelevant today. INN 2.x with a CNFS spool should be much faster.
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