On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 12:30 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > That would be possible, but would waste memory space. But we've all > got gigabytes of ram these days, maybe nobody cares. Why would it waste memory space? Either way it's in some memory mapping somewhere. It's just a matter of what file it is associated with? The inode of the directory, or the underlying block device? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html