From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Oct 28 1: 9: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 885F414CB3 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 01:08:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA21335 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 10:08:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id KAA31593 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 10:08:57 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from isbalham.ist.co.uk (isbalham.ist.co.uk [192.31.26.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E784E14CB3 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 01:08:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from gid.co.uk (uucp@localhost) by isbalham.ist.co.uk (8.9.2/8.8.7) with UUCP id JAA14043; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 09:07:32 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from grimbling (grimbling [192.168.0.250]) by cwagate (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA41755; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 08:12:14 +0100 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19991028081210.0079b7a0@192.168.255.1> X-Sender: rbmail@192.168.255.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 08:12:10 +0100 To: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au From: Bob Bishop Subject: Re: Storing small files in inodes Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <99Oct28.135145est.40328@border.alcanet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, At 01:56 PM 10/28/99 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: >I'd like to float the possibility of storing small (<= 60 bytes) files >and maybe directories inside inodes [etc] This is a very old idea - ISTR seeing it in a paper over 10 years ago, unfortunately I don't have a reference to hand. Might be worth revisiting. -- Bob Bishop +44 118 977 4017 rb@gid.co.uk fax +44 118 989 4254 (0800-1800 UK) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message