Messages in this thread | | | From | Christoph Rohland <> | Subject | Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints? | Date | 23 Apr 2001 16:54:02 +0200 |
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Hi Ingo,
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Ingo Oeser wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 01:43:27PM +0200, Christoph Rohland wrote: >> On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, David L. Parsley wrote: >> > attach packages inside it. Since symlinks in a tmpfs filesystem >> > cost 4k each (ouch!), I'm considering using mount --bind for >> > everything. >> >> What about fixing tmpfs instead? > > 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.
Greetings Christoph
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