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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!acsc.com!acsc.com!jerry From: jerry@acsc.com (Jerry Chen) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: yet another question about ufs_lookup() Date: 30 Sep 1993 22:29:57 GMT Organization: Advanced Computing Systems Company Lines: 10 Distribution: world Message-ID: <28fml5$12b9@acsc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cpuserver.acsc.com The code sets a flag: 294 slotstatus = COMPACT; but never uses it. Why? My guess is that the designer planned to compact the holes in the directory blocks but has been too busy (or simply forgot) to do it. Am I right? Jerry JyhRen Chen