> bad form following up on my own post but there was another good thing
> that came out of this change - internal to the fileassoc code the
> changed interface eliminated a redundant call to VOP_GETATTR().
> 
> -- 
> Brett Lymn

iirc, the interface was designed in the way that the implementation
can be switched to use something better than ino_t to identify "files".
your change kills the idea.  please revert.

YAMAMOTO Takashi