Re: Storing small files inside the inode
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Thu, 17 Jun 1999 17:39:30 -0400
In message <Pine.LNX.4.10.9906171456490.4446-100000@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>, Matth
ew Kirkwood writes:
+-----
| On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
| > I was mainly thinking of this for symlinks because they are generally
| > really short. Actually, for symlinks it would be really easy because
| > you cannot edit a symlink, you have to delete it and recreate it, so
| > the size never changes.
|
| ext2 stores short symlinks in the inode.
|
| It would be possible to have it do the same for very small files, but
| it would be of debatable benefit, I think.
+--->8
Orthogonality implies cleaner code.
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carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
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