Re: [PATCH RFC DRAFT DOESNOTBUILD] inode: free up more space

Christian Brauner
2025-07-17T07:48:54Z

On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 03:02:00PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 05:09:03PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > will be harder, we have to get to 604 bytes. Although for my system if
> > we could get xfs_inode down from 1024 bytes to 992, that'd save me much
> > more memory ;-)
>
> There's some relatively low hanging fruit there.
>
> One would be to make the VFS inode i_ino a u64 finally so that XFS
> and other modern files systems an stop having their own duplicate of

That's already on my TODO since we discussed this with Jeff last year.