Re: unixfs: cache canonicalized unix paths corresponding to dos devices

[Dimi Paun]

From: "Michael Jung"
> In the current implementation, for every shitemid that is constructed, all
> drives are queried and their paths are canonicalized, which is a lot of

disk
> i/o and string copying. Unixfs is really painfully slow. I guess we need

some
> caching scheme, but if you don't like the current one, I'll give it some

more
> thought.

Can't we just invalidate the cache if we notice things have changed?