From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030858AbXDXAXS (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:23:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030894AbXDXAXS (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:23:18 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:35772 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030858AbXDXAXR (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:23:17 -0400 Message-ID: <462D4D6E.50809@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:21:02 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Neil Brown CC: Theodore Tso , Eric Hopper , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Question about Reiser4 References: <462C2E5B.1080008@redhat.com> <462C4858.3050006@redhat.com> <462C4D32.4000909@redhat.com> <462C5034.9090403@redhat.com> <20070423010445.454eda63.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070423135216.GA2744@omnifarious.org> <20070423225640.GA1663@thunk.org> <462D46DF.4090802@zytor.com> <17965.19438.292138.959036@notabene.brown> In-Reply-To: <17965.19438.292138.959036@notabene.brown> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Neil Brown wrote: > > Our you could think outside the circle: > Store all your "small files" as symlinks, then use "symlink" to create > them and "readlink" to read them. (You would probably end up use > symlinkat and readlinkat). > Only one system call instead of three. > I guess you don't get meaningful permission bits then... I wonder if > that really matters. > For some applications, oh yes it does. -hpa