Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Jun 1999 23:39:25 +1000 | From | Martijn van Oosterhout <> | Subject | Storing small files inside the inode |
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One thing I've wondered about ever since I heard about it (I think NTFS has it), was whether for small files, the data could be stored inside the inode. After all, there are at least 13 4-byte entries that could be used.
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.
Ofcourse they may have already been done, but I don't think so AFAIK.
This would save a seek and a read for the symlink because the data is already in the inode.
Comments?
Please CC any replies as I read this through an HTML archive.
Martijn van Oosterhout Australia
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