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SubjectStoring small files inside the inode
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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