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From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
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Subject: Re: ELF & putting inode at the front of a file
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how do you find the inode?



On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote:
> > > I have modified FFS filesystem code to put the disk inode at the beginning
> > > of a file, i.e, the logical block #0 of each file begins with 128 bytes of
> > > its disk inode and the rest of it are file data. 
> > 
> > first question I have is, why?
> 
> I am doing some research on filesystem.  I guess it may be faster to put
> the disk inode with its file data together so that both can be read into
> memory in one I/O. 
> 
> -Zhihui
> 
> 
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