[OpenAFS-devel] RE: [OpenAFS] linux 2.4.2

Love lha+openafs@stacken.kth.se
18 Apr 2001 22:25:41 +0200


"Neulinger, Nathan" <nneul@umr.edu> writes:

> *laugh* no actually - missed that... then why are we keeping a copy of
> struct inode then if such a hook exists, couldn't we accomplish everything
> just by attaching something to the hook?

Probably since using `struct inode' and `generic_ip' make you loose 200-300
bytes for each inode. All the other filesystem data is still in the
union. There have been talks on fs-devel to solve this.

Love