Re: Max. number of subdirectories dump

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>> It's an obvious optimization to keep type already in the directory
>> itself.  But is there any other reason why it was added there?  It
>> obviously means you have the same information in two places, [...]
> struct dirent is not stored on the disk, but created during eg
> readdir() system call via VOP_READDIR(), etc.

Perhaps, but the type _is_ stored on the disk in recent
implementations.  See src/sys/ufs/ufs/dir.h in 5.2, for example.

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