Steve Dodd writes:
>> Who needs "open-by-inode"?
>
> I dimly recall USENET server authors muttering about it, though with
> a sane directory layout and an effective dcache I would've thought
> the win would be minimal.
The dcache is not effective because of the huge numbers of files
that get accessed in a fairly random way.
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