On 4/23/06, David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> wrote:
> Alternatively you just need to keep the last used generation number for
> each inode number - which should just cost 4 bytes/inode, and ought to
> be pagable.

Which is what the attached patch did, isn't it?  The structure is a
bit bigger because it is stored in a linked list (an extra pointer to
do the mapping), and it'd be pageable if we solved all the pageability
issues in tmpfs (a custom pool allocator?)...

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