Re: ELF & putting inode at the front of a file

[Zhihui Zhang]

On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote:
> > I am doing some research on filesystem.  I guess it may be faster to put
> > the disk inode with its file data together so that both can be read into
> > memory in one I/O. 
> 
> I still don't get it. To get the file, you do a lookup. So the inode is in
> memory. The you call the handler for the executable. But the inode is in
> memory at this point .... what am I missing?
> 

When you read the disk inode, the first part of the data of its
corresponding file is brought into the memory at the same time.

-Zhihui



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