Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:23:35 +0200 | From | Ingo Oeser <> | Subject | Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints? |
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Hi Chris,
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 04:54:02PM +0200, Christoph Rohland wrote: > > The question is: How? If you do it like ramfs, you cannot swap > > these symlinks and this is effectively a mlock(symlink) operation > > allowed for normal users. -> BAD! > > How about storing it into the inode structure if it fits into the > fs-private union? If it is too big we allocate the page as we do it > now. The union has 192 bytes. This should be sufficient for most > cases.
Great idea. We allocate this space anyway. And we don't have to care about the internals of this union, because never have to use it outside the kernel ;-)
I like it. ext2fs does the same, so there should be no VFS hassles involved. Al?
Regards
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