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 ...

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 ...

Some files on a Linux system can appear in more than one location. Follow these instructions to find and identify these "identical twins" and learn why hard links can be so advantageous. Identifying ...

It doesn’t take very much time working on a Unix system before your attention is drawn to the mysteries of the inode, especially these days with the concept of metadata getting so much public ...

I bought some new kit for a Linux HTPC. It has a 320g as one of its drives. Last night Debian formatted the drive and I didn't think of the bytes-per-inode setting since I figured it would ...