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- From: toreh@bootes.sds.no (Tore Haraldsen)
- Subject: Re: Almost Free Symbolic Links (source code)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.172949.10731@ulrik.uio.no>
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- Organization: Statens Datasentral A/S, SDS, Norway
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:29:49 GMT
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- Thank you, Curt Mayer, for this nice, little hack!! It reduces my shadow
- X11R5 tree from 12MB of symlinks to a mere 800kB, quite a difference!
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- I recognize the technique as the one applied to the Ultrix file system a
- couple of years ago, it made a similar impact there...
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- Again, thank you for a very nice hack!
-
- -- tore
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- Tore Haraldsen, Statens Datasentral A/S - SDS, Norway
- email: toreh@bootes.sds.no
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