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Date:      Thu, 10 Nov 2005 11:30:34 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        Doug White <dwhite@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_subr.c src/sys/fs/devfs devfs_vnops.c 
Message-ID:  <4576.1131618634@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:12:05 %2B1100." <20051110202946.Q2041@epsplex.bde.org> 

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In message <20051110202946.Q2041@epsplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes:

>>>> The reason it is not in dirent is that UFS/FFS uses dirent as the
>>>> layout in directories as a microoptimization.
>>>
>>> I think the reason is exactly the opposite.
>>
>> Care to elaborate ?
>
>I think ffs is older than the current `struct dirent', and the latter
>was copied from ffs's `struct direct', not vice versa.

Yes, we're in agreement then.

My point was that cookies were not added to dirent because of the
UFS/FFS relationship.

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