Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Nov 2002 15:11:28 -0800 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: Filesystem Capabilities in 2.6? |
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On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 10:47:07AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> - Make a new file type, and put just that information in the > directory (so that it shows up in d_type on a readdir()). Put the > real data in the file, ie make it largely look like an "extended > symlink".
reading directories therefore causes lots of seeks and performance begins to suck again
IMO, extended attributes are a better place to store this and making it per-inode, there is an argument that having a file behave differently in different places is unecessaryly complex and really doesn't solve any know real-world problems
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