Re: Linux/Pro -- clusters

[Andrew Morton]

Daniel Phillips wrote:
> 
> On December 4, 2001 07:04 pm, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > Single additional alloc -> twice as many allocs, two slabs, more cachelines
> > > dirty.  This was hashed out on fsdevel, though apparently not to everyone's
> > > satisfaction.
> >
> > Al Viro's NFS in generic_ip saved me something like 130K of memory.
> 
> Yes, all of these proposals would do that, by getting away from all inodes
> being the same size (basically the size of the ext2 inode).
> 

ext3 is the pig at present.  I think Andreas has half-a-patch
to move it to generic_ip.