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DateMon, 23 Apr 2007 17:21:02 -0700
From"H. Peter Anvin" <>
SubjectRe: Question about Reiser4
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
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