Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

Ingo Oeser
2001-04-23T15:24:03Z

Hi Chris,

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 04:54:02PM +0200, Christoph Rohland wrote:
> > The question is: How? If you do it like ramfs, you cannot swap
> > these symlinks and this is effectively a mlock(symlink) operation
> > allowed for normal users. -> BAD!
>
> How about storing it into the inode structure if it fits into the
> fs-private union? If it is too big we allocate the page as we do it
> now. The union has 192 bytes. This should be sufficient for most
> cases.

Great idea. We allocate this space anyway. And we don't have to
care about the internals of this union, because never have to use
it outside the kernel ;-)

I like it. ext2fs does the same, so there should be no VFS
hassles involved. Al?

Regards

Ingo Oeser
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