Messages in this thread |  | | From | Matthias Urlichs <> | Subject | Re: noatime support in kernel? | Date | Thu, 24 Oct 1996 15:14:52 -0200 |
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In linux.dev.kernel, article <slrn56ua0s.gnb.jason@pris.oit.co.uk>, jason@oit.co.uk (Jason Haar) writes: > > [there's also another patch for directly accessing files by their inodes...] > Ouch. Since the directory is already cached (you got the inode by reading a directory, hopefully...), that change shouldn't make any difference.
If you want direct access to the news storage, then it'd be better to drop the idea of a file system entirely. There are better ways... for instance, a bunch of huge cyclic files (one for each range of article expiry dates).
Or whatever.
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