On Wed, 3 Dec 1997 17:09:44 +1100 (EST) 
 Darren Reed <darrenr@cyber.com.au> wrote:

 > One person mentioned that it should be done so that only one 32bit longword
 > is used and that is to store the actual inode address of the `next inode'
 > and its type would be stored in-block.  The advantage was if you changed

Heh... see the suggestion I just posted on this subject :-)

The main difference is that I want to keep the additional info in a
mostly-opaque "aux" structure.

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