Re: noatime support in kernel?

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@smurf.noris.de)
Thu, 24 Oct 1996 15:14:52 -0200

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In linux.dev.kernel, article <slrn56ua0s.gnb.jason@pris.oit.co.uk>,
jason@oit.co.uk (Jason Haar) writes:
>
> [there's also another patch for directly accessing files by their inodes...]
>
Ouch. Since the directory is already cached (you got the inode by reading a
directory, hopefully...), that change shouldn't make any difference.

If you want direct access to the news storage, then it'd be better to drop
the idea of a file system entirely. There are better ways... for instance,
a bunch of huge cyclic files (one for each range of article expiry dates).

Or whatever.

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