linux-ext4 - Re: Fast symlinks stored slow

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Message-ID: <20170712205230.GC19996@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 12 Jul 2017 21:52:30 +0100
From:   "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@...hat.com>
To:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: Fast symlinks stored slow

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.

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