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On Feb 3, 2011, at 9:30 PM, Robert Ransom <rransom.8774@gmail.com> wrote:

>>=20
>>=20
>=20
> This feature might be more useful if the directory entries were
> presented to clients of the FS in a textual format, but that would
> encourage, if not require, far more parsing in the system, and that is
> bad both for performance and for security.

Sounds like a good argument for requests to potentially specify response for=
mats (at least in cases where the default is undesirable or sub-optimal for p=
erformance reasons)....

  -Eric=20=