Re: speed difference between using hard-linked and modular drives?

[David S. Miller]

   From: Andrew Morton <[e-mail]>
   Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 23:35:04 -0800

   b) Except for certain specialised workloads, a lookup is usually
      associated with a big memory copy, so none of it matters and

I disagree, cache pollution always matters.  Especially, if the cpu
does memcpy's using cache-bypass-on-miss.

Franks a lot,
David S. Miller
[e-mail]