Re: Open by inode? (was Re: knfsd)

Florian Weimer (fw@cygnus.stuttgart.netsurf.de)
05 Jan 1999 14:20:45 +0100


Meelis Roos <mroos@tartu.cyber.ee> writes:

> >> Is there any reason why the superuser shouldn't be able to open by
> >> inode? This seems an obvious idea; perhaps there's also an obvious
> >> argument against it that I'm not seeing...
>
> JL> Is this really necessary?
>
> It might speed up news servers - maybe even a lot.

It has already been done for INN 1.4 and kernel 1.2.x (AFAIK) and it
resulted in a performance improvement. But to be honest, this is
pretty much irrelevant today. INN 2.x with a CNFS spool should be
much faster.

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