From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Oct 28 12:27: 0 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 A72C614CF7 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 12:26:51 -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 VAA02089 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 21:26:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id VAA34481 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 21:26:50 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from kithrup.com (kithrup.com [205.179.156.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 982A714CF7 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 12:26:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sef@kithrup.com) Received: (from sef@localhost) by kithrup.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA25987; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 12:26:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sef) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 12:26:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Sean Eric Fagan Message-Id: <199910281926.MAA25987@kithrup.com> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Reply-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Storing small files in inodes In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19991028081210.0079b7a0.kithrup.freebsd.freebsd-arch@192.168.255.1> References: <99Oct28.135145est.40328@border.alcanet.com.au> Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <3.0.6.32.19991028081210.0079b7a0.kithrup.freebsd.freebsd-arch@192.168.255.1> you write: >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. Amdahl was doing this in UTS a long time ago. To the best of my knowledge, they did not have any problems with it. And we're _already_ doing it for a particular class of files -- symlinks. My only concern is that I'd like an option to disable it on a per-filesystem basis. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message