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I mean, you could add some indirection & some sort of directory data, if desired to allow hard links & get directory listing perf reasonable. This was mainly a
by codys 9y ago
I mean, you could add some indirection & some sort of directory data, if desired to allow hard links & get directory listing perf reasonable.
This was mainly an example to show that "paths" in some sense are (or could be) handled by file systems, not an actual design I'd aspire to :)
- loeg 9y agoFair enough. In fact, I think Windows leaves path parsing and component lookup to individual filesystems. (Hence one filesystem per drive letter, and no mount points.)