> Somebody wrote a Usenix paper based on this idea, and his answer was yes, for
> most systems, the directories are small enough that caching all of them is
> effective.
That is what Novell servers do. They keep the complete directory tree in ram.
I'm not sure if it is a good idea on a general purpose OS though.
-Andi
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