In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> Last time we suggested this, people ended up with some OS trying
> it and getting worse performance.
Which OS? Neither BSD nor SVR4/SVR5 (or even SVR3) do that.
> Why? You need to allocate the VFS-inode (vnode in other OSs) and
> the on-disk-inode anyway at the same time. You get better
> performance and less fragmentation, if you allocate them both
> together[1].
Because having an union in generic code that includes filesystem-specific
memebers is ugly? It's one of those a little more performance for a lot of
bad style optimizations.
Christoph
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Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX.
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