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SubjectRe: need filetype field in directory entries
> At first sight this may look like a proposal to bloat the Unix file
> system. But the filetype info really belongs into each directory
> entry, because

Are you sure it belongs in the directory entry and not the inode? Can two
links to the same file have different types?

/johan

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