On 20/10/20 4:52 am, Gregory P. Smith wrote:
Those of us with a traditional posix filesystem background may raise eyeballs at this duplication, seeing a directory as a place that merely maps names to inodes

This is probably a holdover from MS-DOS, where there was no separate
inode-like structure -- it was all in the directory entry.

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Greg
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