From: Tomasz Torcz <zdzichu@irc.pl>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Slimming down struct inode
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 13:03:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060610110335.GA7959@irc.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Foqjw-00010e-Ln@candygram.thunk.org>
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On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 07:50:08PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> So without further ado, here are some ideas of ways that we can slim
> down struct inode:
>
> 1) Move i_blksize (optimal size for I/O, reported by the stat system
> call). Is there any reason why this needs to be per-inode, instead
> of per-filesystem?
>
> 2) Move i_blkbits (blocksize for doing direct I/O in bits) to struct
> super. Again, why is this per-inode?
ZFS filesystem uses dynamic, per-file blocksizes. Some Linux
filesystem may implement something like this in order to be called
"modern".
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Tomasz Torcz "God, root, what's the difference?"
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-09 23:50 [RFC] Slimming down struct inode Theodore Ts'o
2006-06-10 0:24 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-06-10 1:27 ` Al Viro
2006-06-10 1:56 ` Theodore Tso
2006-06-10 6:24 ` Stefan Richter
2006-06-10 10:48 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-06-10 15:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-13 4:35 ` Nathan Scott
2006-06-13 4:32 ` Nathan Scott
2006-06-13 14:00 ` Avi Kivity
2006-06-13 17:44 ` Theodore Tso
2006-06-13 18:08 ` Avi Kivity
2006-06-13 20:10 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-06-13 20:25 ` Avi Kivity
2006-06-13 22:41 ` Nathan Scott
2006-06-14 10:29 ` Nikita Danilov
2006-06-14 21:50 ` Nathan Scott
2006-06-15 5:49 ` Theodore Tso
2006-06-15 7:01 ` Nathan Scott
2006-06-15 8:46 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-15 10:20 ` Nathan Scott
2006-06-14 23:27 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-06-15 10:09 ` Nikita Danilov
2006-06-10 11:03 ` Tomasz Torcz [this message]
2006-06-10 15:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-15 0:16 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-15 4:43 ` Theodore Tso
2006-06-15 8:27 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
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