From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@google.com>
Subject: Re: Fast symlinks stored slow
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 21:52:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170712205230.GC19996@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170712170711.GA19996@redhat.com>
On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 06:07:11PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> To cut a long story short, we were using libext2fs to create
> filesystems where short symlinks (< 60 bytes) were stored the same way
> as long symlinks, ie. stored as an ordinary file instead of being
> stored in the inode.
As a further data point, e2fsck does not complain about these
filesystems.
Rich.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-12 20:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-12 17:07 Fast symlinks stored slow Richard W.M. Jones
2017-07-12 20:52 ` Richard W.M. Jones [this message]
2017-07-12 21:36 ` Tahsin Erdogan
2017-07-12 23:17 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-07-13 8:02 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-07-13 16:49 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-07-13 17:13 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-07-13 18:50 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-07-13 20:27 ` Richard W.M. Jones
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