>8k per inode?  I've got a 2GB filesystem here with over 100k inodes and
>1.5G used.  This proposal would chew up around 800MB, or about 40% of
>the available space.  Disk space _isn't_ that cheap.

Uh, at NASA/Ames it is. Currently 4TB is the disk cache. That will more
than double.

>
>Maybe if a finite amount of data was kept in the inode too this wouldn't
>be as bad.  Something "simpler" might be to just allocate another
>fragment and use that for "funny" data _if needed_.

That's another idea. Again, though, this becomes a second access.

>
>Simon.
>
>ps: should this have stayed on developers and not migrated to tech-kern?
>Or the other way around?
>

We were told to move to tech-kern.