>Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 10:10:06 -0800
>From: "V. Kanchan" <vkanchan@s3.com>

>1.    Each of the filesystems i.e nfs/ufs maintain thier respective
>inode hash tables. Isn't it better to have a global hash table at the
>vnode layer ?. This will reduce code duplication and also better
>utilization of hash tables. Am I missing something here ?

Not all filesystems use inodes, e.g. msdosfs.
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