> On 19 Sep 2022, at 06:30, Tim via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > On Sun, 2022-09-18 at 21:44 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: >> With a symlink, that "data" is the string that shows as the symlink >> target. The advantage over a tiny file is that if the string is short >> enough to fit within the inode structure, no data block on the disk >> needs to be allocated. That's faster and more efficient than creating >> a file since the inode needs to be set up and written in any case. >> systemd is far from the first program to take advantage of this. > > Interesting. What about the old running out of inodes on a disc > problem? How did they handle that?
I would assume that the file system is created with lots of inodes so it is never a problem in practice. Barry > > -- > > uname -rsvp > Linux 3.10.0-1160.76.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Aug 10 16:21:17 UTC 2022 x86_64 > > Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. > I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
