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Re: storing symlink in extended attribute (on ntfs)


Hi!

Saturday, 12 May, 2001 egor duda deo@logos-m.ru wrote:

CF>> As a specific comment, I wonder if it would just make sense to store volume
CF>> information in the path_conv class to avoid going through the duplicate efforts
CF>> in symlink.

ed> i guess so. currently, GetVolumeInformation is called only when
ed> symlink is created, not resolved, but this will slow things down on
ed> file systems other than NTFS. to remove this penalty,
ed> GetVolumeInformation() should be called in symlink resolution code to, 
ed> and that's where volume information caching can save some cycles.

done. i think, however, that this patch should wait until 1.3.3

Egor.            mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19

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