Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

[Alexander Viro]

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.

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