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From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9
Date: Thu,  8 Nov 2001 10:39:02 +0000
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geoff@collyer.net writes:

> 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).

By a "large mount table" I mean one which has a similar number of
entries to the size of the file system.  For a filesystem with ten
thousand files, that would be something a similar number of entries.
I'm sorry if that wasn't clear.