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?
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