Re: Question about Reiser4

H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-24T00:23:18Z

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