On 06/20/2017 06:47 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 06:45:45AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: >> To the page? Where do you want to find room for that? > > In the page we don't. In the buffer_head we have plenty (as will > the replacement for it if I ever get time to get back to that) That sounds fragile... Is it really worth it to avoid stealing three bits in the inode? Do we have buffer_heads attached everywhere, that sounds surprising to me. -- Jens Axboe