These patches attempt to slim down struct inode to reduce the overhead of storing cached inodes. A typical Linux system has hundreds of thousands of inodes cached, if not more, so reducing the inode ...

XFS currently has to deal with two separate inode lifecycles which makes for complexity in inode lookups and reclaim. We also have the problem of not always having a linux inode around when it might ...

On May 14, 2001, H. Peter Anvin announced to the linux-kernel mailing list: “Linus Torvalds has requested a moratorium on new device number assignments. His hope is that a new and better method for ...