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SubjectRe: Storing small files inside the inode
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.
>
> Ofcourse they may have already been done, but I don't think so AFAIK.

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.

Matthew.


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