Re: Open by inode? (was Re: knfsd)

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@noris.de)
8 Jan 1999 12:10:50 +0100

Magnus Ahltorp <map@stacken.kth.se> writes:
>
> In arla (a free AFS implementation), we manage a lot of files in a
> cache directory. If normal lookups are used, this is very slow, since
> lots of files lie in the same directory. This is speeded up somewhat
> by the directory cache, but this is not very effective if the file is
> not used for long and then suddenly used.

Why aren't you using a multilevel cache directory??

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