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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Telling Workbench about new icons
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Date: Wed, 25-Nov-87 12:32:18 EST
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>are kept in a hash table for fast initial access. Finding a named
>file on the Amiga is a very fast operation, finding *all* files is
>slow because these tables have to be traversed. The only enhancement

	Clarification:  Traversing the hash table is fast, but all the 
directory knows about are file inodes.  The file name, size, etc... are
all kept in the inodes, which are spread about the disk.  inode=header block
(my unix background).

					-Matt