Steve Dodd <steved@loth.demon.co.uk> writes:
> > Who needs "open-by-inode"?
>
> I dimly recall USENET server authors muttering about it,
Yes, there were some patches for old INN version to use open-by-inode for
article access. On the other hand, today, INN has additonal backends for
storing articles which don't put one file per article in a per-newsgroup
directory, so inode lookup is no longer a bottleneck.
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