Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> I had a thought, but I think it's not quite ripe..
> 
> NFS server sends the whole directory contents on NFS client opendir,
> so that the whole readdir/telldir/seekdir magic can happen on the
> client only... which would perhaps also enable a cheap telldir/seekdir,
> and would also give a 'fixed view' when adding/deleting files
> during readdir.
> 

That doesn't sound right... what if there are two million files in the 
directory?

	-hpa
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