Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

[Richard Gooch]

Alexander Viro writes:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:
> 
> > - keep a separate VFSinode and FSinode slab cache
> 
> Yup.
> 
> > - allocate an enlarged VFSinode that contains the FSinode at the end,
> >   with the generic pointer in the VFSinode part pointing to FSinode
> >   part.
> 
> Please, don't. It would help with bloat only if you allocated these
> beasts separately for each fs and then you end up with _many_ allocators
> that can generate pointer to struct inode. 
> 
> "One type - one allocator" is a good rule - violating it turns into
> major PITA couple of years down the road 9 times out of 10.

Agreed. The better option is the separate VFSinode and FSinode caches.
The enlarged inode scheme is also ugly, like the unions. It's just
less bloated :-)

				Regards,

					Richard....
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