Re: re-thinking partitions
> > > > - are symlinks really fast?
> > >Quite, except on NFS.
> > could you be more specific? could you describe a situation where
> > symlinks would slow-down things and a possible solution eliminating
> > thesymlink?
> Normally, no NFS data is cached on the client, which means that for
> a small file, accessed via a symlink, the time to get the file will
> be twice, because the server will be contacted once to resolve the
> symlink, and a second time to access the file. This can get quite
> slow if you've got bad latency.
> Solution: don't use symlink forests on NFS exported volumes.
why not have symlink resolving done by the server? AFAIK there's
no need for the client to know about symlinks!
> Phil.
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