On Sun, 2022-09-18 at 21:44 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: > With a symlink, that "data" is the string that shows as the symlink > target. The advantage over a tiny file is that if the string is short > enough to fit within the inode structure, no data block on the disk > needs to be allocated. That's faster and more efficient than creating > a file since the inode needs to be set up and written in any case. > systemd is far from the first program to take advantage of this. Interesting. What about the old running out of inodes on a disc problem? How did they handle that? -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.76.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Aug 10 16:21:17 UTC 2022 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
