> superior VFS design -- except when you need to write an NFS server.
> Not being able to do open_by_inode() is sometimes _really_ annoying.
> Just look at the mess in fs/nfsd/nfsfh.c and tell me how this is superior
> over a simple iget() ?
Its interesting to note that BSD tried a dcache once (before the days of
386BSD this is) and gave it up. Instead the inodes are the primary cache and
the directory caches are optional speedups.
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