> On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Craig Milo Rogers wrote:
> > operations on the filesystem in questions, you might implement an
> > auxiliary file that holds persistent inode mappings.
>
> ... and face additional shitload of races due to the fact that we have an
> extra file to modify. And additional slowdown. Great.
Nah, it's not that bad, only as bad as umsdos.
And isn't umsdos lovely, easy to keep running, and a general joy to work
with? Just think, you could do that to normal FAT, too! ;P
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