> We have many, many inodes though, and 12 bytes per adds up! > > I'm on board with the idea, but...that's likely to be as big a patch > series as the ctime overhaul was. In fact, it'll touch a lot of the same Hm, I really think that isn't an issue. Let the series be big. Half of the meaningful fs patches explode anyway as soon as you change any i_op/f_op anyway. If it meaningfully cleans up something then it's worth it. Hm, we really need automated testing on vfs.git soon so we can run xfstests for all major filesystems automatically instead of me having to kick this off manually every time.
