From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Subject: Re: Fast symlinks stored slow Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 21:52:30 +0100 Message-ID: <20170712205230.GC19996@redhat.com> References: <20170712170711.GA19996@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Tahsin Erdogan To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:33566 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751862AbdGLUwc (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jul 2017 16:52:32 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170712170711.GA19996@redhat.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 06:07:11PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > To cut a long story short, we were using libext2fs to create > filesystems where short symlinks (< 60 bytes) were stored the same way > as long symlinks, ie. stored as an ordinary file instead of being > stored in the inode. As a further data point, e2fsck does not complain about these filesystems. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v