> > I bet it long predates dcache though..
>
> Not too likely. <checking CVS> It went in in 2.1.93. Apr 2 1998...
> Dcache was there ~50 versions before that.
Huh. Is there anything that prevents fragmentation in, say, growing
maildirs, where there's nothing but locality to hold the directory inode
in cache?
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