What if you created multiple files (forks) for the meta data you want.
You would then include their inode lists in the inode list for the file
they are storing information for. You would arrange the inode lists so
that a read from the file would produce just the file, but you could
do some magic and read ALL the data from the file.
You'd have the advantage that multiple file directory entries point to
some "contiguous" data. Separate yet whole. For systems that couldn't
support the inode munging, you just store them as separate files.
--Perry
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