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SubjectRe: Storing small files inside the inode


On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

> 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.

And in that case they *are* stored in inode both on ext2 and ufs.
See fs/ext2/symlink.c for details.


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