Re: proposed change for async vbuffer heads
Bernd Schmidt (crux@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE)
Fri, 22 Aug 1997 13:50:09 +0200 (MET DST)
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> Directories I don't even consider "meta-data" for most filesystems: on
> most filesystems directories are just another kind of file, and the page
> cache lends itself well to it.
Hmmm, aren't most directories rather small (512 byte)? If you use the
page cache for them, you use 8 times as much space as you need on a machine
with 4K pages.
Bernd