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From: Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
To: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
Cc: "David L. Parsley" <parsley@linuxjedi.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@math.psu.edu
Subject: Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:23:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010423172335.G719@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3AE307AD.821AB47C@linuxjedi.org> <m3r8yjrgdc.fsf@linux.local> <20010423151753.C719@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> <m3d7a3r7jp.fsf@linux.local>
In-Reply-To: <m3d7a3r7jp.fsf@linux.local>; from cr@sap.com on Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 04:54:02PM +0200

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
-- 
10.+11.03.2001 - 3. Chemnitzer LinuxTag <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag>
         <<<<<<<<<<<<     been there and had much fun   >>>>>>>>>>>>

  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-23 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-22 16:32 David L. Parsley
2001-04-22 16:41 ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-23 11:43 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-04-23 13:17   ` Ingo Oeser
2001-04-23 14:54     ` Christoph Rohland
2001-04-23 15:23       ` Ingo Oeser [this message]
2001-04-23 15:36         ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-23 20:45           ` Ingo Oeser
2001-04-23 20:56             ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-04-23 22:00               ` Ingo Oeser
2001-04-23 22:10                 ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-23 22:47             ` Andreas Dilger
2001-04-24  1:37             ` Jan Harkes
2001-04-24  2:53               ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-24  9:58                 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-24 10:07                   ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-24 10:19                     ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-24 10:35                     ` Christoph Rohland
2001-04-24 10:54                       ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-24 12:51                         ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-24 13:34                         ` Christoph Rohland
2001-04-24 16:52                           ` David L. Parsley
2001-05-05  7:48                             ` [Patch] inline symlinks for tmpfs Christoph Rohland
2001-05-04 19:17                           ` [Patch] encapsulate shmem access to shmem_inode_info Christoph Rohland
     [not found]                             ` <3AF405FC.11D37FEB@bellsouth.net>
2001-05-06 13:58                               ` [Resend] Collection of tmpfs patches Christoph Rohland
2001-04-24 16:04                         ` Can't read SCSI TAPE Masaki Tsuji
2001-04-24 18:36                         ` hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints? Andreas Dilger
2001-04-24 18:49                           ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-24 19:11                             ` Andreas Dilger
2001-04-24 22:01                             ` Ingo Oeser
2001-04-24 21:59                 ` Trond Myklebust
2001-04-24 22:09                   ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-24 22:31                   ` Trond Myklebust
2001-04-23 21:19           ` Richard Gooch
2001-04-23 22:42             ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-04-23 22:49             ` Richard Gooch
2001-04-23 23:07               ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-23 23:24                 ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-23 23:13               ` Richard Gooch
2001-04-24  6:33           ` Christoph Rohland
2001-04-23 14:08   ` David L. Parsley
2001-04-23 14:14     ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-24  0:16 Ed Tomlinson
2001-04-24  3:56 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-04-24 10:01   ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-24 13:27     ` Erik Mouw
2001-04-24 18:47       ` Andreas Dilger
2001-04-24 18:52         ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-24 20:45         ` Erik Mouw
2001-04-25  7:25         ` Christoph Rohland
2001-04-25 18:39     ` Andreas Dilger
2001-04-25 18:47       ` Alexander Viro

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