I realize this has probably been brought up before, but wouldn't it be
possible to cache the entire directory tree/inode list from a drive?
Granted, it would take up a large amount of memory, but for systems
with a lot of memory to spare (96+ MB), it would offer a huge
performance increase. Also, it would be a good way to use memory over
64MB on motherboards which only cache up to 64MB, since even uncached
memory blows disk away. Perhaps making the amount of memory used by
this cache configurable at boot time would be helpful as well.
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