"File types"

[der Mouse]

> But you're already using 2 - 4 bytes in the inode to track this type!
> I.e., '.' followed by 1 - 3 (or more) characters of extension.

Nitpick: as far as I know, all fielsystems that use inodes keep names
in directory entries, not in the inodes themselves.  That is, files
don't have names; rather, names have files.

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