>>>>> Theodore Ts'o (TT) writes: TT> Storing the tail as an extended attribute TT> ========================================= TT> BSD FFS/UFS Fragments TT> ===================== what if we would apply BSD FFS/UFS Fragments design to inodes? something like basic inode size is still 128 bytes, but we could unite few contiguous inodes to a larger one and use that space to store extented attributes, including a tail ? I foresee couple issues: a) as we can't predict tail size, we'd need to be able to reallocate inode or do some sort of delayed inode allocation b) inode space is quite limited and this why we may exhaust it very quickly thanks, Alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
