On 29 October 2010 15:14, Eric Van Hensbergen <eri...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just to make sure I understand things correctly, where does this mess > things up with standard (as opposed to synthetic) file systems?
i think that part of the problem is that plan 9 makes no distinction between "standard" and "synthetic" file systems. perhaps if there was, then optimisations like this could work a little less haphazardly.