Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Jun 1999 10:24:56 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Storing small files inside the inode |
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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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