On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:28:00PM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote:
> Using a union of filesystems, that might not even be compiled into the
> kernel or as modules, in struct inode is just..... bad.
>
> It is really annoying when the filesystems with larger inodes bloat up
> the size for those who are careful with their bytes, can we do something
> about that generally?
I believe it has been desided to solve this either by:
* including a filesystem-specific pointer in the general inode
or
* have the filesystem build the inode, and include all the general inode
variables in it's data-structure.
If it's not alreaddy done in 2.5 I think it's just a question of time.
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