From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9
From: geoff@collyer.net
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Date: Wed,  7 Nov 2001 03:00:57 -0800
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To back up presotto's claim of efficiency of binds, my old department
overlaid our sparsely-populated file server onto the main plan 9 file
server.  ovfs got written late in the game, so for a long time, we had
a /lib/namespace that was 346 lines (by the end, anyway).  The first
cut was generated by a shell script; we're not completely mad.  Of
those lines, 260 were binds and 14 were mounts (the rest was
whitespace or comments).  On top of that, people's profiles usually
added a few more binds.  There was no observable performance penalty,
either when creating a new namespace or when working in same.  If
performance had been dreadful, we would have done something else.