Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [reiserfs-dev] Re: Ext2 directory index: ALS paper and benchmarks | Date | Sun, 9 Dec 2001 16:29:00 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Remember: we'd save 15*4=60 bytes per inode, at the cost of pinning the > block the inode is in. But _usually_ we'd have those blocks in memory > anyway, especially if the inode gets touched (which dirties it, and > updates atime, which forces us to do writeback). For the initial IO we > obviously _have_ to have them in memory.
Surely the buffer has the on disk inode format, not the fast to handle in processor inode format ?
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